Word properties of a fixated region affect outgoing saccade length in Chinese reading

Vision Research

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-6

  Wei, Wei ^a   Li, Xingshan ^a   Pollatsek, Alexander ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese reading; Eye movements; Outgoing saccade length; Saccade target selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE READING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; CHINA; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; READING; SACCADES;

EID: 84873931827     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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