The role of invariant line junctions in object and visual word recognition

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 718-725

  Szwed, Marcin ^a,c   Cohen, Laurent ^a,b,c,e   Qiao, Emilie ^b   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,c,d,f  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^e ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Invariance; Reading; Visual recognition; Word form; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64549123895     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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