The frequency-predictability interaction in reading: It depends where you're coming from

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1294-1313

  Hand, Christopher J ^a   Miellet, Sébastien ^b   O'Donnell, Patrick J ^b   Sereno, Sara C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual predictability; Eye movements; Launch site; Reading; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SACCADES; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957347069     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020363     Document Type: Article

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