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SUBMITTER: Kinoshita S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4577525 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Psychonomic bulletin & review 20151001 5
In visual word recognition tasks, digit primes that are visually similar to letter string targets (e.g., 4/A, 8/B) are known to facilitate letter identification relative to visually dissimilar digits (e.g., 6/A, 7/B); in contrast, with letter primes, visual similarity effects have been elusive. In the present study we show that the visual similarity effect with letter primes can be made to come and go, depending on whether it is necessary to discriminate between visually similar letters. The res ...[more]