Extraction of information to the left of the fixated word in reading

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1162-1172

  Binder, Katherine S ^a,b   Pollatsek, Alexander ^a,b   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; VISUAL FIELD;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033174746     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.25.4.1162     Document Type: Article

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