When consciously perceiving complex material, such as when looking for a particular letter of a particular colour:
Perception requires attention.
The attention has to be focused upon one item at a time, thus …
processing is serial.
Some parallel processing may take place, but…
it is detected indirectly, such as by the influence of one word upon another.
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