Space information is important for reading

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1994-2000

  Perea, Manuel ^a   Acha, Joana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649158639     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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