Making and correcting errors during sentence comprehension: Eye movements in the analysis of structurally ambiguous sentences

1982/04/01 by Lyn Frazier, Keith Rayner · 1,783 citations
Computer Science · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Cognitive psychology #Comprehension #Computer science #Eye movement #Fixation (population genetics) #Linguistics #Mechanism (biology) #Natural language processing #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Parsing #Psychology #Reading and Literacy Development #Sentence #Sentence processing #Text Readability and Simplification

paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(82)90008-1

published in Cognitive Psychology 14(2), 178-210 (Elsevier BV)

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