Eye movements and parafoveal word processing in reading Chinese

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1033-1045

  Yen, Miao Hsuan ^a   Tsai, Jie Li ^a,b   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^a,c   Hung, Daisy L ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MENTAL PROCESSES; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 46449133326     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.5.1033     Document Type: Article

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