Interword spacing in Chinese text layout

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 355-365

  Hsu, Sheng Hsiung ^a   Huang, Kuo Chen ^b  

^a Section 4   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; READING; TAIWAN;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TAIWAN;

EID: 0034296414     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2000.91.2.355     Document Type: Article

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