Immediate and Delayed Effects of Word Frequency and Word Length on Eye Movements in Reading: A Reversed Delayed Effect of Word Length

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 726-750

  Pollatsek, Alexander ^a   Juhasz, Barbara J ^b   Reichle, Erik D ^c   Machacek, Debra ^a   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; E Z Reader; eye movements; models; reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STATISTICS;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SACCADES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 44449178906     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.3.726     Document Type: Article

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