Summary of Van Orden experiements: The cognitive faculities of reading are constantly analized with the purpose of better understanding what they are, and if they can be isolated. The process of orthographic identification, recognizing words, is what makes up skillful and effeicent reading. How words are most quickly identified is the aim many previous experiements as well as Van Orden's. The general hyphothesis is that phonological indentification is more present in reading then orthological identification. …showed first 75 words of 499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 499 total…up so that the base word would be shown for only 1500 msec while the target words were shown for 500 msec. Immediately after each target word there was a pattern mask, or set of random letters or symbols, to prevent the image of the word reocurring mentally while the subject thought. The results of the test were then based on the number of times people made the mistake of saying yes to the two simliar words.