Comparing reading speed for horizontal and vertical English text

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Yu, Deyue ^a,b   Park, Heejung ^b,c   Gerold, David ^b   Legge, Gordon E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Letter recognition; Reading speed; Vertical reading; Visual span

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; VISION, LOW; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955507213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.2.21     Document Type: Article

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