Early parafoveal processing in reading Chinese sentences

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-33

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

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese; Eye movements; Parafoveal preview; Reading; Word processing; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STUDENT; TAIWAN; TIME; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; READING; SACCADES; STUDENTS; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 64749103466     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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