The impact of letter detection on eye movement patterns during reading: Reconsidering lexical analysis in connected text as a function of task

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 987-995

  Greenberg, Seth N ^a   Inhoff, Albrecht W ^b   Weger, Ulrich W ^b  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; READING; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33646796657     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210600654776     Document Type: Article

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