Eye movements when reading disappearing text: Is there a gap effect in reading?

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1013-1024

  Liversedge, Simon P ^a   Rayner, Keith ^b   White, Sarah J ^a   Vergilino Perez, Dorine ^a,c   Findlay, John M ^a   Kentridge, Robert W ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c Universite de Paris 71   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL INFORMATION;

COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1642344676     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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