New standardized texts in Brazilian Portuguese to assess reading speed - comparison with four European languages;Textos padronizados em português (BR) para medida da velocidade de leitura - comparação com quatro idiomas europeus

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 553-558

  Messias, André ^a,b   Velasco e Cruz, Antonio Augusto ^b   Schallenmüller, Sonia Jecov ^c,d   Trauzettel Klosinski, Susanne ^e  

^a Center for Ophthalmology   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto de Ensino Brasil Alemanha (IEBA)   (Brazil)

^d Instituto de Ensino Brasil Alemanha ^*  (Brazil)

^e Sub Normal da Universidade de Tübingen   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Eye movements; Fixation, ocular; Linguistics; Mental processes; Reading; Translations; Vision tests; Vision, low; Visual acuity; Visual fields physiology; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLICATION; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATIONS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649236085     PISSN: 00042749     EISSN: 16782925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27492008000400016     Document Type: Article

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