Eye movements and processing difficulty in object relative clauses

Cognition

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-86

  Staub, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements in reading; Relative clauses; Sentence processing; Syntactic parsing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952821721     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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