Optimal viewing position in vertically and horizontally presented Japanese words

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1634-1644

  Kajii, Natsumi ^a   Osaka, Naoyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING;

EID: 0034327252     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212161     Document Type: Article

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