The nature of abstract orthographic codes: evidence from masked priming and magnetoencephalography.

What kind of mental objects are letters? Research on letter perception has mainly focussed on the visual properties of letters, showing that orthographic representations are abstract and size/shape invariant. But given that letters are, by definition, mappings between symbols and sounds, what is the...

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Main Authors: Liina Pylkkänen, Kana Okano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2876033?pdf=render