The influence of literacy on visual search.

Currently one in five adults is still unable to read despite a rapidly developing world. Here we show that (il)literacy has important consequences for the cognitive ability of selecting relevant information from a visual display of nonlinguistic material. In two experiments we compared low to high l...

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Published in:Visual Cognition Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 74 - 102
Main Authors: Olivers, C. N. L., Huettig, F., Singh, J. P., Mishra, R. K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2014
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