Eye movements and the perceptual span in silent and oral reading

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 634-640

  Ashby, Jane ^a   Yang, Jinmian ^b   Evans, Kris H C ^c   Rayner, Keith ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Individual differences; Oral reading; Parafoveal processing; Reading speed; Slow readers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; READING; RETINA FOVEA; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; READING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84863385013     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0277-0     Document Type: Article

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