The effect of word position on eye-movements in sentence and paragraph reading

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1838-1857

  Kuperman, Victor ^a   Dambacher, Michael ^b   Nuthmann, Antje ^c   Kliegl, Reinhold ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Sentence processing; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77956681945     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470211003602412     Document Type: Article

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