Strategy use in the reading span test: An analysis of eye movements and reported encoding strategies

Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 634-646

  Kaakinen, Johanna K ^a   Hyönä, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 34547506693     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701457096     Document Type: Article

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