Last but not least.
When two three-letter words are flashed up in sequence, observers cannot tell whether the top halves of the words are the same or different. It follows that words, like faces, are processed holistically, not as a set of separate features.
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Department of Psychology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0109, USA. sanstis@ucsd.edu
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