Effects of parafoveal word length and orthographic features on initial fixation landing positions in reading

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 950-963

  Plummer, Patrick ^a   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Orthography; Reading; Word perception

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; RETINA FOVEA; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SACCADES; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS;

EID: 84862703617     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0286-z     Document Type: Review

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