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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Orthographic Coding in Illiterates and Literates Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Karla Orihuela, and Manuel Carreiras Does literacy shape the way letter strings are visually processed? Literate and illiterate
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Feature-Binding Errors After Eye Movements and Shifts of Attention Julie D. Golomb, Zara E. L’Heureux, and Nancy Kanwisher In this study, the authors examined distortions in feature
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research from Psychological Science: Task Relevance Induces Momentary Changes in the Functional Visual Field During Reading Johanna K. Kaakinen and Jukka Hyönä Research has shown that people zoom in on task-relevant
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Loss Attention in a Dual-Task Setting Eldad Yechiam and Guy Hochman Can losses actually make you perform better? The authors tested the hypothesis known as the loss-attention
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Super Rare Items Are Most Likely to Be Missed
Various jobs in security, medicine, and other fields require employees to pick out a target item in the midst of lots of distracting information. To complicate matters, the targets that are are most important to
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Study: smartphone game shows baggage screeners likely to miss ultra-rare items
Wired: A study has used data collected from a smartphone game that allows users to act as airport baggage screeners to prove that ultra-rare items are highly susceptible to search errors. Cognitive psychologists from Duke
