| Abstract: | Presented 40 undergraduates with a stream of auditory letters in which some of the letters formed words. Ss were or were not given cues for the start of the words. It was found that (a) Ss required an indication of which letters started words. If certain letters formed part of more than 1 word, S detected the word for which a cue was provided but more often than not failed to detect the other word. When cues were provided on both words, the probability of getting both depended on the extent to which the 2 words "overlapped" in common letters. Results are discussed in the light of current work on serial processing. (French summary) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
