Frequency and predictability effects in the Dundee Corpus: An eye movement analysis

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 601-618

  Kennedy, Alan ^a   Pynte, Joël ^b   Murray, Wayne S ^a   Paul, Shirley Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus studies; Eye movements; Fixation duration; Gaze; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA FOVEA; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84875291607     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.676054     Document Type: Article

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