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. 2019 Oct;23(10):812-814.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.07.001. Epub 2019 Aug 30.

You Can't Recognize Two Words Simultaneously

Alex L White  1 , Geoffrey M Boynton  2 , Jason D Yeatman  3
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You Can't Recognize Two Words Simultaneously

Alex L White et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 Oct.
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Keywords: attention; parallel processing; reading; serial processing; word recognition.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:. Behavioral and neuronal evidence of a serial bottleneck in visual word recognition.
(A) Example stimuli. At the start of each trial, a precue (not shown) directed attention to one side or both. The task was to categorize a postcued word as ‘living’ or ‘nonliving’. (B) The average ‘attention operating characteristic’ (N = 15). Accuracy is consistent with the serial model. (C) Ventral view of one participant’s left hemisphere, showing the two subregions of the visual word form area (VWFA). V1, V2, V3, hV4, and VO are retinotopic visual areas. (D) The effects of lexical frequency on mean fMRI responses in VWFA-2 (N = 15). Only one attended word per trial has an effect [4]. Abbreviation: ISI, inter-stimulus interval.
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  • Readers Are Parallel Processors.
    Snell J, Grainger J. Snell J, et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 Jul;23(7):537-546. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.006. Epub 2019 May 25. Trends Cogn Sci. 2019. PMID: 31138515 Review.

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