Vision: What’s so special about words?

Colin J Davis

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.052

Vision: What’s so special about words?

Colin J Davis

School of Psychological Science

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Abstract

Readers are sensitive to the statistics of written language. New research suggests that this sensitivity may be driven by the same domain-general mechanisms that enable the visual system to detect statistical regularities in the visual environment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R284-R287
Number of pages	4
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	31
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.052
Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2021

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Keywords

vision; visual word recognition

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