Eye movements during the reading of compound words and the influence of lexeme meaning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 675-687

  Inhoff, Albrecht W ^a   Starr, Matthew S ^a   Solomon, Matthew ^a   Placke, Lars ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; READING; SACCADES; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 45849088070     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.3.675     Document Type: Article

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