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Banks, William P.; Flora, Julianne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1977
Studies the processing of pictures and words as symbols. Shows that the superiority of pictures results from the fact that pictures are interpreted more quickly than words, but that after the interpretation is made, processing is the same. Also gives evidence that pictures and words are both processed in terms of linguistic codes rather than…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Information Processing, Research Methodology