The letter height superiority illusion
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The letter height superiority illusion.
Letters are identified better when they are embedded within words rather than within pseudowords, a phenomenon known as the word superiority effect (Reicher in Journal of Experimental Psychology, 81, 275-280, 1969). This effect is, inter alia, accounted for by the interactive-activation model (McClelland & Rumelhart in Psychological Review, 88, 375-407, 1981) through feedback from word to lette...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0753-8