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A Word Superiority Effect without Orthographic Assistance

1974; Academic Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14640747408400416

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Leslie Henderson,

Categorization, perception, and language

In a binary classification task meaningful but unpronounceable letter strings were compared faster than meaningless strings. This effect obtained when only one member of a pair was meaingful and it increased with number of letters. These results suggest that analysis proceeds in parallel at various levels of the processing hierarchy with interaction between semantic and graphemic processes.