Mind wandering in text comprehension under dual-task conditions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Dixon, Peter ^a   Li, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dual task methodology; Letter detection; Mind wandering; Missing letter effect; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885395934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00682     Document Type: Article

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