If it's hard to read... try harder! Processing fluency as signal for effort adjustments

Psychological Research

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 376-383

  Dreisbach, Gesine ^a   Fischer, Rico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; REACTION TIME; READING;

ADULT; APTITUDE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 80051675339     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-010-0319-y     Document Type: Article

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