Mindless reading revisited: An analysis based on the SWIFT model of eye-movement control

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 322-336

  Nuthmann, Antje ^a,b   Engbert, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Eye movements; Mindless reading; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349118147     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.10.022     Document Type: Article

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