| Abstract: | Conducted 2 experiments in which 24 Ss were asked to identify words with all or some of their letters inverted. The experiments differed only in the explicitness of the instructions given to Ss. In some cases the letters appearing upside down were inverted as 1 unit, and in other cases they were inverted by letter. It was found that when all the letters were inverted, recognition time was faster for unit inversion. When just a few of the letters in the words were inverted, recognition time was shorter when the inversion was letter by letter rather than by unit. Data are consistent with a model that assumes that when the stimulus is homogeneously misoriented unit correction is applied, and when such homogeneity does not exist piecemeal correction is applied. (French abstract) (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
