Violating stereotypes: Eye movements and comprehension processes when text conflicts with world knowledge

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 551-559

  Duffy, Susan A ^a   Keir, Jessica A ^a   Myers, J ^a   Rayner, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 4644266045     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195846     Document Type: Article

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