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The visual categories for letters and words reside outside any informationally encapsulated perceptual system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 1999
Abstract
According to Pylyshyn, the early visual system is able to categorize perceptual inputs into shape classes based on visual similarity criteria; it is also suggested that written words may be categorized within early vision. This speculation is contradicted by the fact that visually unrelated exemplars of a given letter (e.g., a/A) or word (e.g., read/READ) map onto common visual categories.
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