The effects of interletter spacing in visual-word recognition

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-351

  Perea, Manuel ^a   Moret Tatay, Carmen ^a,b   Gómez, Pablo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALENCIA SAN VICENTE MÁRTIR   (Spain)

^c DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Letter position coding; Letter word spacing; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79958130978     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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