Font size modulates saccade-target selection in chinese reading

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 482-490

  Shu, Hua ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Yan, Ming ^b,c   Kliegl, Reinhold ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinese; Eye movement; Font size; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SACCADES; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951946684     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0029-y     Document Type: Article

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