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Ss were instructed to “read” displays of letters presented for several milliseconds and to indicate which of three signal letters had been present. The instructed reading path through the display was manipulated by assigning point values to display locations. The results indicated that the letters simultaneously presented were at some stage successively processed. It was suggested that the serial operation was a successive preservation of locations in an image of the display by means of a series of tests of category descriptions on each image location.
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This research was supported by Public Health Service Grant No. MH16270-02. The authors wish to thank Marilyn Jensen for assistance in conducting the experiments and to acknowledge a helpful discussion with John I. Yellott, Jr., on the design of Experiment 2.
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Shaw, P., LaBErge, D. Manipulation of visual processing by varying the rewards associated with display locations. Perception & Psychophysics 10, 348–352 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207456
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