On the flexibility of letter position coding during lexical processing: Evidence from eye movements when reading Thai

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1522-1536

  Winskel, Heather ^a   Perea, Manuel ^b   Ratitamkul, Theeraporn ^c  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Interword spaces; Reading; Thai; Transposed letter effects; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; THAILAND;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; THAILAND;

EID: 84864659097     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.658409     Document Type: Article

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