title: BACS: The Brussels Artificial Character Sets for studies in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
abstract: Written symbols such as letters have been used extensively in cognitive psychology, whether to understand their contributions to written word recognition or to examine the processes involved in other mental functions. Sometimes, however, researchers want to manipulate letters while removing their associated characteristics. A powerful solution to do so is to use new characters, devised to be highly similar to letters, but without the associated sound or name. Given the growing use of artificial characters in experimental paradigms, the aim of the present study was to make available the Brussels Artificial Character Sets (BACS): two full, strictly controlled, and portable sets of artificial characters for a broad range of experimental situations.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Cognition Langage, Développement (LCLD), Centre de Recherche Cognition et Neurosciences (CRCN), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Av. F. Roosevelt, 50, CP 191 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Camille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vidal
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Cognition Langage, Développement (LCLD), Centre de Recherche Cognition et Neurosciences (CRCN), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Av. F. Roosevelt, 50, CP 191 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Content
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Cognition Langage, Développement (LCLD), Centre de Recherche Cognition et Neurosciences (CRCN), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Av. F. Roosevelt, 50, CP 191 1050, Brussels, Belgium. fchetail@ulb.ac.be.
authors.forename: Fabienne
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chetail
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000379:methods*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011932:Reading; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Artificial characters; Letters; Similarity; Uppercase/lowercase