Extraction of linguistic information from successive words during reading: Evidence for spatially distributed lexical processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 662-677

  Wang, Chin An ^a   Inhoff, Albrecht W ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention gradient; Attentional spotlight; Eye movements; Reading; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; OCULOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881104322     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030242     Document Type: Article

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