Power-law fluctuations in eye movements predict text comprehension during connected text reading

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 2583-2588

  Wallot, Sebastian ^a   O'Brien, Beth A ^b   Coey, Charles A ^c   Kelty Stephen, Damian ^d  

^a Department of Culture and Society ^*  (Denmark)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehension; connected text reading; eye movements; naturalistic text reading; power law scaling

Indexed keywords

SCALING LAWS; SURVEYS;

COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; COMPREHENSION; CONNECTED TEXT READING; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; FIXATION DURATION; NATURALISTIC TEXT READING; POWER LAW SCALINGS; POWER-LAW; READING COMPREHENSION; TEXT COMPREHENSIONS;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 85048512762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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