Visual search strategies and letter position encoding in Russian
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2016/07/0003/000262Keywords:
visual word recognition, visual search task, Russian, Cyrillic scriptAbstract
This article reports a visual search experiment involving Cyrillic letters of the Russian alphabet. Results show that (1) the first and last letters of test arrays are detected faster than neighboring letters and the letter search function looked like M-curve; (2) letter quality influences response latencies. The results argued for parallel letter-position encoding in Russian.
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