On coding non-contiguous letter combinations

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2011, Pages

  Dandurand, Frédéric ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^b   Andoni, Jon Duñabeitia ^c   Granier, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bigrams; Information; Optimization; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858624270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00136     Document Type: Article

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