A study by Neisser, Novick and Lazer (1984) found that visual search for a target letter (e.g., K) in a list of non-target "noise" letters was greatly slowed if the "noise" letters:
A) shared similar features (e.g., N, M, X)
B) were more frequent in language
C) were distinct (e.g., O, S, U)
D) were less frequent in every-day use
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