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title: How we recognise words
date: "2004-09-05T12:00:00Z"
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Excellent article by a Microsoft cognitive psychologist on how we [recognise words](http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/WordRecognition.aspx).

> We recognize a word's component letters simultaneously, then use that visual information to recognize a word.