Mindless reading revisited: Eye movements during reading and scanning are different

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 734-747

  Rayner, Keith ^a   Fischer, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SACCADES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030188779     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213106     Document Type: Article

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