M. Arunkumar|Jeroen van Paridon|Markus Ostarek|Falk Huettig
Do illiterates have illusions? A conceptual (non)replication of Luria (1976)
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Radboud University Nijmegen
abstract luria luria cognitive development cultural social foundations harvard university press 1976 famously observed people never learnt read write perceive visual illusions conducted conceptual replication luria study effect literacy processing visual illusions designed two carefully controlled experiments 161 participants varying literacy levels ranging complete illiterates high literates chennai india accuracy reaction time identification visual shape color illusions identification appropriate control images measured separate statistical analyses experiments 1 2 well pooled analyses experiments provide support notion literacy affects perception visual illusions large sample carefully controlled study strongly suggests literacy meaningfully affect identification visual illusions raises questions reports cultural effects illusion perception