The role of components in object recognition is still mysterious 4,5,6,7. For most objects we don't even know what the components are, but we do know that words are made of letters. Is a familiar word ...

Visual word recognition is a multifaceted process involving the rapid and efficient extraction of letter identities and their spatial arrangement. Integral to this field is the exploration of how the ...

The next time you are reading a book, or even as you read this article, consider the words that you are seeing. How do you recognize these words? A new study reveals that the most important features ...