Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 217-230 , February 2010

The inversion effect in visual word form processing

  • Chien-Hui Kao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Der-Yow Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chien-Chung Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.

Received 7 May 2008 ,Revised 21 January 2009 ,Accepted 3 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.04.003

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