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Science 14 June 1974:
Vol. 184. no. 4142, pp. 1192 - 1194
DOI: 10.1126/science.184.4142.1192
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Perception of Letters in Words: Seek Not and Ye Shall Find

James C. Johnston 1 and James L. McClelland 1

1 Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19174

Subjects perceive a letter in a briefly presented word more accurately when they attend to the whole word than when they focus their attention on just the letter they want to see.


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