The illusory-letters phenomenon: an illustration of graphemic restoration in visual word recognition.
We present a demonstration of word perception in which stimuli containing very few letters (just 50% of their original number) are presented for unlimited durations and yet are seen unequivocally as complete words. The phenomenon suggests that recognition of words can be achieved even when perception of their component letters is prevented.
Jordan
T R
TR
Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK. trj@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk
Thomas
S M
SM
Scott-Brown
K C
KC
D006801:Humans; D009903:Optical Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010466:Perceptual Closure / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading