The IOVP effect in mindless reading: Experiment and modeling

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 990-1002

  Nuthmann, Antje ^a   Engbert, Ralf ^a   Kliegl, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mislocated fixations; Oculomotor errors; Optimal viewing position; Reading; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVERTED OPTIMAL VIEWING POSITION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33847656682     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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