The influence of text legibility on eye movements during reading

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1129-1148

  Slattery, Timothy J ^a,b   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TEXT LEGIBILITY;

EID: 78649539003     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1623     Document Type: Article

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