The role of interword spacing in reading Japanese: An eye movement study

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2575-2584

  Sainio, Miia ^a   Hyönä, Jukka ^a   Bingushi, Kazuo ^b   Bertram, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fixation; Japanese; Reading; Saccade; Space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JAPAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SACCADES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34548490293     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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