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serial search Refers to the manner in which the mental lexicon is searched for words. Used in two senses: in one it refers to how words are checked one at a time till the correct one is found (contrast parallel access); in the other information flows in one direction through the processing system (contrast interactive activation).
Topics: Finding words, Visual word recognition