A cultural side effect: Learning to read interferes with identity processing of familiar objects

Based on the neuronal recycling hypothesis (Dehaene & Cohen, 2007), we examined whether reading acquisition has a cost for the recognition of nonlinguistic visual materials. More specifically, we checked whether the ability to discriminate between mirror images, which develops through literacy a...

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Main Authors: Regine eKolinsky, Tânia eFernandes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01224/full