Channel for reading

Najib J. Majaj; Yan Xiang Liang; Marialuisa Martelli; Tracey D. Berger; Denis G. Pelli

doi:10.1167/3.9.813

Channel for reading

Najib J. Majaj, Yan Xiang Liang, Marialuisa Martelli, Tracey D. Berger, Denis G. Pelli

Psychology

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Letter identification is mediated by just one spatial frequency channel (Solomon & Pelli, 1994). But what about reading? We wondered whether larger features, e.g. words, at lower spatial frequencies are used when reading text as opposed to just identifying letters. We characterized the channel for reading by measuring reading rate as a function of the spatial frequency of a narrow-band noise mask. We found that reading text is mediated by the same 1.6 octave wide channel as that used to identify letters. No channel tuned to words was revealed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	813a
Journal	Journal of vision
Volume	3
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1167/3.9.813
State	Published - 2003

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Ophthalmology
Sensory Systems

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