Subtle Increases in Interletter Spacing Facilitate the Encoding of Words during Normal Reading

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Perea, Manuel ^a   Gomez, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERLETTER SPACING; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; WORD RECOGNITION;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867631948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047568     Document Type: Article

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