Looking for meaning: Eye movements are sensitive to overlapping semantic features, not association

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 869-874

  Yee, Eiling ^a   Overton, Eve ^a   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; THINKING; VISION;

CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; THINKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74849094511     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.5.869     Document Type: Article

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