Word Superiority Effects Across the Varieties of Attention

Autor: Maria Falikman
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Journal of Russian & East European Psychology. 49:45-61
ISSN: 1558-0415
1061-0405
DOI: 10.2753/rpo1061-0405490503
Popis: The word superiority effect (WSE) in visual information processing was described more than a century ago. However, the ambiguity remains regarding the interaction between WSE and attention. An attempt was made to investigate this issue using a number of experimental paradigms, including the attentional blink, motion-induced blindness, perceptual latency priming, and visual search. The data obtained agree with the previous findings and demonstrate that full attention is not required for the WSE to occur, but only when attention is directed toward or diverted from the word as a whole rather than toward or from word components.
Databáze: OpenAIRE