Lexical and sublexical semantic preview benefits in Chinese reading

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1069-1075

  Yan, Ming ^a   Zhou, Wei ^b   Shu, Hua ^b   Kliegl, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Preview benefit; Reading; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84865156046     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026935     Document Type: Article

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