Question asking and eye tracking during cognitive disequilibrium: Comprehending illustrated texts on devices when the devices break down

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1235-1247

  Graesser, Arthur C ^a,f   Lu, Shulan ^b   Olde, Brent A ^c   Cooper Pye, Elisa ^d   Whitten, Shannon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Naval Operational Medicine Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^f University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MECHANICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MECHANICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; STATISTICS;

EID: 33644765350     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193225     Document Type: Article

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