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WEBSep 4, 2013 · The word superiority effect (WSE) refers to the observation that when written stimuli are degraded by noise or brief presentation, letters in words are reported more accurately than single letters and letters embedded in non-words. This effect has been studied using different tasks, stimuli, and masking conditions (see e.g., Johnston, 1981 ).
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WEBLloyd Peterson and Margaret Peterson (1959) found that when people were asked to remember a list of three-letter strings and then were immediately asked to perform a distracting task (e.g., counting backward by threes), the material was quickly forgotten (see Figure 10.4), such that by 18 seconds it was virtually gone. Figure 10.4.
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WEBMay 31, 2022 · A classic study in cognitive psychology found that participants in a study could only recall 10% of random three-letter strings after 18 seconds. After 3 seconds, the participants could recall 80% ...
Repetition of letter strings leads to activation of and connectivity ...
WEBFeb 1, 2012 · Whole-brain analyses of each condition (early letter strings, late letter strings, and words) versus the control task are shown in Figure 1B and in Supplementary Table 1, 2 and 3. There is considerable overlap among all three conditions in the posterior visual areas, with focal activations in multiple early visual and visual association areas.
Repeated letters increase the ambiguity of strings: Evidence …
WEBFeb 1, 2022 · Fig. 2 provides a similar summary for a trial in which the stimulus presented is “pop” and the options are “pop” and “cop”. All calculations regarding the perception of each position are unchanged from the preceding example (assuming unchanged parameters). The consequences, however, differ because the first letter is now a “p” that is the same identity as the common third ...
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WEBNov 26, 2014 · 3 Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; ... We chose 3-letter strings rather than 4-letter strings to decrease the complexity of the stimuli and thus increase the likelihood that they would be able to attract attention after training. The letter strings …
Repeated letters increase the ambiguity of strings: Evidence from ...
WEBFeb 1, 2022 · The model asseses the similarity between two letter strings by summating the areas of overlap under the curves of the brief string that match a comparison string whose representation is uniformly spread within the relevant position window (i.e., ±0.5 from the center). ... Cognitive Psychology, Volume 137, 2022, Article 101491. Thomas E. …
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WEB12 undergraduates were required to report the name of a single postcued "critical" letter in a tachistoscopically displayed string of 4 letters. Stimulus characters were arranged to form strings in which the letters did or did not form words in which contextual constraint of the critical letters was either minimized or maximized. Each complete string was formed by combining 2 strings of letter ...
Visually-Presented Letter Strings Typically are Encoded …
WEBJul 6, 2010 · The Journal of General Psychology Volume 114, 1987 - Issue 2. Submit an article Journal homepage. 9 Views 2 ... Three experiments were conducted to show that phonological encoding is typical for visually-presented letter strings, and that an interactive activation model with a phonological route to the mental lexicon accounts adequately for …
Letter string processing and visual short-term memory
WEBAug 19, 2011 · The present study investigated whether expertise with letter string processing influences visual short-term memory capacity. Specifically, we examined whether performance in a change-detection task would vary as a function of stimulus type (letters vs. symbols) and type of display (horizontal, vertical, and circular).
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