letter string

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letter
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈlet.ər/ us /ˈlet̬.ɚ/
used to refer to a standard size of paper in the US, 8.5 inches by ...
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string
noun
uk /strɪŋ/ us /strɪŋ/
(a piece of) strong, thin rope made by twisting very thin threads together, used for fastening and ...
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Examples of letter string

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The reaction time was measured from the letterstring onset to the pressing of the reaction time key.
They computed "lexicality effect" (word - pseudoword efficiency) and "orthography effect" (pseudoword - letterstring efficiency).
The letter change could occur at different positions within the letterstring.
Successful word reading is a match between the input letterstring and a word representation.
In an alphabetic writing system, perceptual processing of a letterstring results in the activation of the grapheme units (individual and multiple letters) of words.
In both representational and nonrepresentational models, a letterstring has usually been treated like any other stimulus.
On the lexical decision trials they were presented with a single letterstring for lexical decision.
Readers may also adopt mappings at different grain-sizes in a visual search task as a function of the type of letterstring presented.
In this thought experiment, a person inside a room follows a rule book and performs calculations on input numbers to obtain an output of a letterstring.
As a result, they might fail to perceive the letter strings or to recognize a letterstring as a word within the time window allowed for the prime word.
For instance, in lexical decision the input letterstring activates orthographic, semantic and phonological codes, all of which could allow a discrimination of word and nonword input.
An unpronounceable letterstring is unlikely to activate many words and those words are unlikely to contain the same letters in the same positions as the pseudoword.
The presence of an external cue (the colour of the background on which the letterstring is presented) informed participants of the required language for decision.
However, before the selection of one precise saccade target, a salient, orthographically illegal cluster at the beginning of the letterstring attracted attention automatically, independent of the intended landing position.
Half of the time a word was presented for 14.3 ms, whereas during the other half, a random letterstring of the same length was presented.
Numerous studies of monolingual word recognition have shown that the lexical decision task is not very sensitive to con-ict between alternate pronunciations of a letterstring.
Subjects were then asked to determine both as accurately and as quickly as possible, whether the second letterstring of each pair was or was not a word.
Instead, participants develop their own rules based on small sections of each letterstring.
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