Transposed-letter effects in reading: Evidence from eye movements and parafoveal preview

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 209-229

  Johnson, Rebecca L ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Parafoveal processing; Reading; Transposed letters; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; READING; RETINA FOVEA; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33847192542     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.1.209     Document Type: Article

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