Distributional effects of word frequency on eye fixation durations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1280-1293

  Staub, Adrian ^a   White, Sarah J ^b   Drieghe, Denis ^c   Hollway, Elizabeth C ^d   Rayner, Keith ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ex Gaussian distribution; Eye movements in reading; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS;

COMPREHENSION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SACCADES; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77957353336     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016896     Document Type: Article

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