Unsegmented text delays word identification: Evidence from a survival analysis of fixation durations

Visual Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-60

  Sheridan, Heather ^a   Rayner, Keith ^b   Reingold, Eyal M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributional analysis; Eye movements; Lexical processing; Reading; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SURVIVAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84876992955     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.767296     Document Type: Article

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