Word recognition and syntactic attachment in reading: Evidence for a staged architecture

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 407-433

  Staub, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements in reading; Sentence processing; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; READING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79961184630     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023517     Document Type: Article

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