Eye Movements and Word Skipping During Reading: Effects of Word Length and Predictability

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 514-528

  Rayner, Keith ^a   Slattery, Timothy J ^a   Drieghe, Denis ^b,c   Liversedge, Simon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Reading; Word length; Word predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954463366     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020990     Document Type: Article

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