The case for the visual span as a sensory bottleneck in reading

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Legge, Gordon E ^a   Cheung, Sing Hang ^b   Yu, Deyue ^a   Chung, Susana T L ^c   Lee, Hye Won ^d   Owens, Daniel P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^e LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Character size; Contrast; Low vision; Reading; Reading speed; Vision; Visual span

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; TIME; VISION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847774784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.2.9     Document Type: Article

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