What does a compound letter tell the psychologist's mind?

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-309

  Navon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compound letters; Compound stimuli; Configural properties; Element homogeneity; Field organization; Formation preference; Global addressability; Global advantage; Global precedence; Global local processing; Hierarchical stimuli; Hierarchically organized structure; Holism; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345133259     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2003.06.002     Document Type: Article

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