Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Word contexts enhance the neural representation of individual letters in early visual cortex

  • Micha Heilbron,
  • David Richter,
  • Matthias Ekman,
  • Peter Hagoort,
  • Floris P. de Lange

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13996-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Letters are more easily identified when embedded in a word. Here, the authors show that word contexts can enhance letter information in early visual cortex, suggesting that the advantage offered by words occurs already during early perceptual processing.