Effects of syntactic prominence on eye movements during reading

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 740-752

  Birch, Stacy ^a   Rayner, Keith ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 77957555423     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.6.740     Document Type: Article

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