Eye movements and the perceptual span in beginning and skilled readers

1986/04/01 by Keith Rayner · 516 citations
Mathematics · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Attention span #Cognition #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Eye movement #Fixation (population genetics) #Linguistics #Neuroscience #Perception #Population #Psychology #Reading (process) #Reading and Literacy Development #Span (engineering) #Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

paper · doi:10.1016/0022-0965(86)90037-8

published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 41(2), 211-236 (Elsevier BV)

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