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  2. Word recognition - Wikipedia

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    Parallel letter recognition is the most widely accepted model of word recognition by psychologists today. [3] In this model, all letters within a group are perceived simultaneously for word recognition. In contrast, the serial recognition model proposes that letters are recognized individually, one by one, before being integrated for word ...

  3. Missing letter effect - Wikipedia

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    The missing letter effect is more likely to appear when reading words that are part of a normal sequence, than when words are embedded in a mixed-up sequence (e.g. readers asked to read backwards). [5] Despite the missing letter effect being a common phenomenon, there are different factors that have influence on the magnitude of this effect.

  4. Set (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    A perceptual set, also called perceptual expectancy, is a predisposition to perceive things in a certain way. [1] Perceptual sets occur in all the different senses. [2] They can be long term, such as a special sensitivity to hearing one's own name in a crowded room, or short term, as in the ease with which hungry people notice the smell of food ...

  5. List of psychic abilities - Wikipedia

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    Dermo-optical perception – The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through the skin. Dream telepathy – The ability to telepathically communicate with another person through dreams. Precognition (including psychic premonitions ) – The ability to perceive or gain knowledge about future events without using induction or deduction ...

  6. Constructive perception - Wikipedia

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    This is example of constructive perception because it required intelligence and thought to combine sensory information, a red octagonal sign with "ST_P" in white letters at an intersection, and knowledge from past experiences, stop signs are red octagonal signs with "STOP" in white letters placed at an intersection, to perceive it as a stop sign.

  7. Anomic aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Anomic aphasia (anomia) is a type of aphasia characterized by problems recalling words, names, and numbers. Speech is fluent and receptive language is not impaired in someone with anomic aphasia. [22] Subjects often use circumlocutions (speaking in a roundabout way) to avoid a name they cannot recall or to express a certain word they cannot ...

  8. Bouba/kiki effect - Wikipedia

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    When given the names "kiki" and "bouba", many cultural and linguistic communities worldwide robustly tend to label the shape on the left "kiki" and the one on the right "bouba". The bouba–kiki effect (pop) ( / ˈ b uː b ə ˈ k iː k iː / ) or takete–maluma phenomenon [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a non-arbitrary mental association between certain ...

  9. Perception - Wikipedia

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    Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it is also shaped by the recipient's learning, memory, expectation, and attention. [4] [5] Sensory input is a process that transforms this low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition). [5]