Preferential inspection of recent real-world events over future events: Evidence from eye tracking during spoken sentence comprehension

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Knoeferle, Pia ^a   Carminati, Maria Nella ^a   Abashidze, Dato ^a   Essig, Kai ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Visual context effects; Visually situated sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867040973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00376     Document Type: Article

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