Eye movement guidance in Chinese reading: Is there a preferred viewing location?

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1146-1156

  Li, Xingshan ^a   Liu, Pingping ^a   Rayner, Keith ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese reading; Eye movements; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; READING;

EID: 79955629327     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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