The effect of word frequency, word predictability, and font difficulty on the eye movements of young and older readers

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 448-465

  Rayner, Keith ^a,d   Reichle, Erik D ^b   Stroud, Michael J ^a   Williams, Carrick C ^c   Pollatsek, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging and reading; Eye movements; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREDICTION; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33749005107     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.3.448     Document Type: Article

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