Word length and landing position effects during reading in children and adults

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2078-2086

  Joseph, Holly S S L ^a   Liversedge, Simon P ^b   Blythe, Hazel I ^b   White, Sarah J ^c   Rayner, Keith ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Eye movements; Landing positions; Reading; Word length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 67650403521     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.015     Document Type: Article

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