What determines the eyes' landing position in words?

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1130-1144

  Ducrot, Stéphanie ^a,b   Pynte, Joël ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036777746     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194762     Document Type: Article

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