Are Individual or Consecutive Letters the Unit Affected by Repetition Blindness?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 761-774

  Harris, Catherine L ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85047681215     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.3.761     Document Type: Article

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