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Denis Drieghe1, Gemma Fitzsimmons1, Simon P Liversedge1

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Southampton.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|October 3, 2017
PubMed
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Removing spaces between words during reading slows down processing and limits how much information readers can process simultaneously. This suggests reading focuses on one word at a time when word segmentation is easy.

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