A cultural side effect: Learning to read interferes with identity processing of familiar objects

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Kolinsky, Régine ^a,b   Fernandes, Tânia ^c  

^a Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Enantiomorphy; Literacy; Mirror images; Visual object recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907820549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01224     Document Type: Article

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