Focus as a contextual priming mechanism in reading

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1313-1322

  Morris, Robin K ^a   Folk, Jocelyn R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; READING;

EID: 0031769983     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201203     Document Type: Article

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