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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
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Some boundary conditions for a word superiority effect

Dean G. Purcell Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 48063, U.S.A.
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Keith E. Stanovich Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 48063, U.S.A.
Pages 117-134 | Received 14 May 1981, Published online: 29 May 2007

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Robert T. Solman. (1987) Influence of Competing Part-Letters on the Word Superiority Effect. The Irish Journal of Psychology 8:1, pages 31-45.
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Timothy R Jordan & Geoffrey R Patching. (2004) What do lateralized displays tell us about visual word perception? A cautionary indication from the word-letter effect. Neuropsychologia 42:11, pages 1504-1514.
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William Prinzmetal & Charmaine E. Lyon. (1996) The word-detection effect: Sophisticated guessing or perceptual enhancement?. Memory & Cognition 24:3, pages 331-341.
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Timothy R. Jordan & Kim M. Bevan. (1994) Word superiority over isolated letters: The neglected case of forward masking. Memory & Cognition 22:2, pages 133-144.
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Christopher H. Chase & Paula Tallal. (1990) A developmental, interactive activation model of the word superiority effect. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 49:3, pages 448-487.
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D. J. K. Mewhort & E. E. Johns. (1988) Some tests of the interactive-activation model for word identification. Psychological Research 50:3, pages 135-147.
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Christine Chiarello. 1988. Contemporary Reviews in Neuropsychology. Contemporary Reviews in Neuropsychology 36 76 .
Robert T Solman. (2016) Temporal Separation of Two Part-Letter Arrays and Size Changes in a Nonmasking Word-Superiority Effect. Perception 16:5, pages 655-669.
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Dean G. Purcell & Alan L. Stewart. (2013) The face-detection effect. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 24:2, pages 118-120.
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Garvin Chastain. (1986) Word-to-letter inhibition: Word-inferiority and other interference effects. Memory & Cognition 14:4, pages 361-368.
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F. M. Marchetti & D. J. K. Mewhort. (1986) On the word-superiority effect. Psychological Research 48:1, pages 23-35.
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Garvin Chastain. (1984) Directional letter-by-letter analysis and the word-superiority effect. Memory & Cognition 12:2, pages 195-201.
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