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The present experiment was designed to examine the temporal ordering of detection performance and recognition performance in the perception of alphabetic characters, employing a visual backward-masking by noise paradigm. The results suggest that the encoding processes that lead to a correct “detection” response are completed earlier than the encoding processes that lead to a correct “recognition” response.
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This research was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant BNS 75-09800 A02 to M. S. Mayzner. We would like to thank D. E. Robinson, C. Trahiotis, and R. Bowen for reading earlier versions of this paper. Terrence R. Dolan is presently on leave to the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. 20550.
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Dolan, T.R., Mayzner, M.S. Detection and recognition of alphabetic characters: Simultaneous and contiguous. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 12, 430–432 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329728
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