Using eye tracking to investigate failure to notice word transpositions in reading.
Previous research (Mirault, Snell, & Grainger, 2018) has demonstrated that subjects sometimes incorrectly judge an ungrammatical sentence as grammatical when it is created by the transposition of two words in a grammatical sentence (e.g., The white was cat big). Here we present two eye-tracking expe...
| Publicado en: | Cognition Vol. 216 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Elsevier B.V.
Nov2021
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