What is special about orthographic processing?

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• Jonathan Grainger
• Hannagan Thomas

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abstract

we compare the function of letters as constituents of written words relative to the role of object parts in other kinds of familiar visual stimuli (e.g. faces, numbers). We explain why we think letters must have a special status and we provide some preliminary empirical evidence in favor of this special status for letters as parts of words.

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