Neuropsychological evidence for case-specific reading: multi-letter units in visual word recognition

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This article presents a case study of a male patient with attentional dyslexia and Balint's syndrome who has great difficulty reading nonwords and words with upper-case or mixed case letters. A series of reading-based studies reveal that this patient is dependent on using familiar multi-letter units to identify written words.

Case studies, Dyslexia, Reading, Psychology of, Brain damage, Neuropsychology

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Visual similarity effects in immediate verbal serial recall

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This study used four experiments involving the serial recall of visually similar words and letters to study the role of visual working memory in the retention of verbal information. Results indicate that visually similar items significantly hindered performance on the recall of words and letter case.

Visual perception, Short-term memory, Recollection (Psychology), Recall (Psychology)

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Processing and storage in working memory span

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Experiments suggest that the multiple resource model provides a better account of resource allocation in working memory span tasks, rather than a model reflecting a single flexible resource pool. Data were obtained from tests using recall of presented words and a version of the sentence span task.

Norway, Models, Memory, Information theory, Psychology, Human information processing, Information theory in psychology

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