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The Word Superiority Effect: Modulation by Familiarity, Handwriting, and Inversion

2025-10-08

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Literate humans are expert in reading text. One proposed reflection of this expertise is a whole-word influence on the identification of letters. In the present study, we investigate the <italic>word superiority effect</italic> , and how language familiarity, orientation and script regularity modulate this effect. We recruited two groups of 20 subjects, one fluent in Farsi and one i...

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Literature Corpus work: 301b760e-4294-51e9-bca9-2b94d1e05dce
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7614278/v1

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