What is the word-superiority effect?
A) We perceive words better than isolated letters.
B) We perceive real words better than nonsense letter strings.
C) We perceive letters better when they appear in words than when they appear in nonwords.
D) We perceive words better when they are in a sentence context than when they are alone.

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The word-superiority effect refers to the phenomenon where people recognize individual letters more accurately and quickly when they are part of a word than when they are seen in isolation or within a nonword.

What Is the Word-Superiority Effect