Performance for discriminating single mirror-image letters in peripheral vision can be as good as that in central vision, provided that letter size is scaled appropriately [Higgins, K. E., Arditi, A., & Knoblauch, K. (1996). Detection and identification of mirror-image letter pairs in central and peripheral vision. Vision Research, 36, 331-337]. In this study, we asked whether or not there is a...

Recent fMRI research has demonstrated that letters and numbers are preferentially processed in distinct regions and hemispheres in the visual cortex. In particular, the left visual cortex preferentially processes letters compared with numbers, whereas the right visual cortex preferentially processes numbers compared with letters. Because letters and numbers are cultural inventions and are other...

list of the articles printed in fum journal of faculty of letters and humanities (language & literature) (nos. 1-179)

the present research deals with verbal and visual values of the persian alphabet. man had achieved common results in this respect in the course of the history, and graphical forms are believed to act as a strong bridge between the man and the universe. the theoretical research is aimed at responding to fundamental questions in this respect including those concerning scientific and historical re...

Abstract Twenty-nine chapters ( sūras ) of the Qur’an begin with disjointed letters al-ḥurūf al-muqaṭṭaʿāt ). These fourteen Arabic alphabet thus became known as “openers chapters” fawātiḥ aṣ-ṣuwar This paper focuses on Ibn ʿArabī’s writings three letters, namely, ʾalif-lām-mīm , well their meaning, and power talisman he associated them. was meant to capture so that a spiritual Seeker could rea...

This paper will give an in-depth discussion of Jesus’ expression “I am Alpha and Omega” (Apocalypse of John = Revelation 1.8) and its influence on the Manichaean writings, on the one hand, and the reason for the division of Mani’s Living Gospel into twenty-two chapters, corresponding to the twenty-two letters of the Manichaean alphabet, on the other. The pape...

One-hundred 3-person groups and 300 individuals solved 2 letters-to-numbers problems, requiring identification of the coding of 10 letters to 10 numbers by proposing an equation in letters, receiving the answer in letters, proposing a hypothesis, and receiving feedback on the hypothesis on each trial. There were 5 instruction conditions: (a). standard, (b). use at least 3 letters on all equatio...