Letters are functional in word identification
- 1 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 5 (3), 292-298
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03197573
Abstract
The advantage of parallel processing of letters in words was attenuated by manipulating similarity. The reaction times of human subjects showed a processing advantage for single letters over words. This result can be described in terms of processing mechanisms of the mediated model (letter processing mediates word identification), the same mechanisms that have already been utilized to describe the accuracy of letter and word identification in tachistoscopic experiments.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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