Eye movements of young and older adults while reading with distraction

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-39

  Kemper, Susan ^a   McDowd, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distraction; Eye movements; Inhibition; Inhibitory deficit theory; Reading with distraction

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; READING; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; READING;

EID: 33747048619     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.1.32     Document Type: Article

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