•Structuralism as education and psychology theory was an attempt to explain how the mind worked.
•Studied perception, not reading
•Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) German psychologist. His
American assistant J.M. Cattell
investigated aspects of reading process such as letter and word recognition, legibility of print, and attention span.
•Cattell reported that subjects’ speed for reading letters connected in words were faster than their speed for reading disconnected letters