Lateral masking
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Lateral masking
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Lateral masking is a problem for the human visual perception of identical or similar entities in close proximity. This can be illustrated by the difficulty of counting the vertical bars of a barcode. In linguistics lateral masking refers to the interference a letter has on its neighbor. This is a problem readers encounter when reading a word. The identity of a letter in the middle of a word is obscured by the presence of its neighboring letters. Lateral masking may also be a problem in orthograp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_masking
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2017-08-01T15:09:35Z
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