Abstract
Summary This study examines the relationship between the reader's prior knowledge and the accuracy of his visual analysis of the text. Seventy-eight semantically precued male and female undergraduates read sentences more accurately than did syntactically cued or noncued Ss, these sentences being presented tachistoscopically in a visually confusing background. Semantically precued Ss analyzed the text more critically than did Ss in the remaining groups as evidenced by their greater accuracy in identifying word meanings and in locating word positions in the visually confusing arrays. This finding is inconsistent with the notion that fluent reading involves but incomplete sampling of the visual text.
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