The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition
Looks at the whether objects are recognized by parts or as wholes and looks specifically at word recognition, finding that a word is unreadable unless its letters ares separately identifiable and that we never in fact learn to see a word as a whole feature. Our identification of a word is mediated
by independent detection of components that are a letter or less.
Author(s):
Pelli, D.G., Farell, B., and Moore, D.C.
References
Pelli, D.G., Farell, B., and Moore, D.C. 2003. The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition. Nature, Vol. 423, 12 June 2003.
