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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

Jeffrey S. Bowers
Jeffrey S. Bowers
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Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8-1TN, England j.bowers@bris.ac.uk
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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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 368 - 369
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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