Spoken language-mediated anticipatory eyemovements are modulated by reading ability - Evidence from Indian low and high literates

Journal of Eye Movement Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mishra, Ramesh K ^a   Singh, Niharika ^a   Pandey, Aparna ^a   Huettig, Falk ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticipatory eye movements; Attention; Individual differences; Literacy; Prediction; Spoken language comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872367844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19958692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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