Letters, Not Words, are Processed Holistically

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2009 English Publisher:SAGE PublicationsJournal:Perception, volume 38, pages 1,572-1,574 (issn: 0301-0066, eissn: 1468-4233,

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Authors: Kevin D, Wilson; James M, Taylor;

doi: 10.1068/p6514

pmid: 19950487

Letters, Not Words, are Processed Holistically

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Abstract

Observers cannot accurately discriminate the top halves of two sequentially presented three-letter words. One interpretation of this effect is that words, like faces, are processed holistically. Here we show, in three simple experiments, that this phenomenon is more consistent with the hypothesis that letters, not words, are processed holistically.

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Keywords

Form Perception, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Verbal Behavior, Humans, Vocabulary, Functional Laterality, Vision, Ocular

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