Mind wandering while reading easy and difficult texts

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 586-592

  Feng, Shi ^a   D'Mello, Sidney ^b   Graesser, Arthur C ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Mind wandering; Reading comprehension; Text difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878487538     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0367-y     Document Type: Article

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