Aging, parafoveal preview, and semantic integration in sentence processing: Testing the cognitive workload of wrap-up

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 638-649

  Payne, Brennan R ^a   Stine Morrow, Elizabeth A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Parafoveal preview; Reading; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PARAFOVEAL PREVIEW BENEFIT; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RETINA FOVEA; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84873042401     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026540     Document Type: Article

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