Basic processes in reading: On the relation between spatial attention and familiarity

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-62

  Risko, Evan F ^a   Stolz, Jennifer A ^b   Besner, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 78651253173     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690961003679574     Document Type: Article

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