Language-mediated visual orienting behavior in low and high literates

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Huettig, Falk ^a,b   Singh, Niharika ^c   Mishra, Ramesh Kumar ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye movements; Literacy; Phonological processing; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862261350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00285     Document Type: Article

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