How Prior Knowledge, WMC, and Relevance of Information Affect Eye Fixations in Expository Text

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 447-457

  Kaakinen, Johanna K ^a   Hyönä, Jukka ^a   Keenan, Janice M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TIME;

COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0041408655     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.3.447     Document Type: Article

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