Research into morphological processing— the dissection of complex words into their smallest meaningful units (morphemes)—has significantly enhanced our understanding of word recognition. This field ...

How does the brain link the visual basic traits of letters and numbers to abstract representations and to words? Scientists have analyzed the influence of context on the visual recognition of a ...

An unprecedented study of brain plasticity and visual perception has found that people who, as children, had undergone surgery removing half of their brain, correctly recognized differences between ...

The architecture and processes underlying visual word recognition represent some of the most intricate systems in human cognition. The seemingly simple act of reading a word involves not only a ...

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The subjects, of high and low verbal ability on the SAT, were trained with nonsense words that occurred 1, 5, 10, or 25 times, and then their tachistoscopic recognition thresholds were obtained for ...

2 experiments were conducted to examine those differences in word-recognition processes between third-grade and college students which are specifically related to the children's relatively greater use ...