Eye movements and the identification of spatially ambiguous words during Chinese sentence reading

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1345-1356

  Inhoff, Albrecht W ^a   Wu, Caili ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHINA; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEW YORK; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33646839650     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193367     Document Type: Article

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