Deficient letter-shape knowledge and awareness despite massive visual experience
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

Despite seeing it in nearly every book, newspaper, and email message, people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase print letter g, Johns Hopkins researchers have found. Most people don`t even know that two forms of the letter-the open-tail one usually handwritten and the looptail one seen in typed materials-exist. And if they do, they can`t write the typeset one we typically see. They can`t even pick it out from a lineup.