The time course of predictability effects in reading: Evidence from a survival analysis of fixation durations

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 733-745

  Sheridan, Heather ^a   Reingold, Eyal M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributional analysis; Eye movements; Predictability; Reading; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KERNEL METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84865037675     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.693548     Document Type: Article

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