Developmental changes in the visual span for reading

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 2889-2900

  Kwon, MiYoung ^a   Legge, Gordon E ^a   Dubbels, Brock R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Letter recognition; Reading speed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548710200     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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