Word predictability and frequency effects in a rational model of reading

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 126-131

  Bicknell, Klinton ^a   Levy, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computational modeling; eye movements; rational analysis; reading

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFERENCE ENGINES;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FREQUENCY EFFECT; HUMAN DATA; MODELING PARAMETERS; RATIONAL ANALYSIS; RATIONAL MODELS; READING; TEXT IDENTIFICATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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