Visual span of detection and recognition of a kanji character embedded in a horizontal row of random hiragana characters

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 125-133

  Matsuda, Masayuki ^a,b  

^a Sakushin Gakuin University   (Japan)

^b Res Inst for Communication Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Detection; Kanji processing; Recognition; Visual complexity of kanji; Visual span

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032258978     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5884.00084     Document Type: Article

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