Reading Spaced and Unspaced Chinese Text: Evidence From Eye Movements

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1277-1287

  Bai, Xuejun ^a   Yan, Guoli ^a   Liversedge, Simon P ^b   Zang, Chuanli ^a   Rayner, Keith ^c,d  

^a TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese reading; eye movements; spaced and unspaced text

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

CHINA; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SACCADES;

EID: 54949115032     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.5.1277     Document Type: Article

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