Perception of Letters in Words: Seek Not and Ye Shall Find
- 14 June 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 184 (4142), 1192-1194
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.184.4142.1192
Abstract
Subjects perceive a letter in a briefly presented word more accurately when they attend to the whole word than when they focus their attention on just the letter they want to see.Keywords
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