Effects of increased letter spacing on word identification and eye guidance during reading

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 502-512

  Paterson, Kevin B ^a   Jordan, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SACCADES; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956460515     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.4.502     Document Type: Article

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