A further specification of the effects of font emphasis on reading comprehension: Evidence from event-related potentials and neural oscillations.
The attention hypothesis, which assumes that font emphasis captures readers' attention, is usually used to explain the mechanism by which such emphasis operates. This study further delineates the attention hypothesis by investigating the ways in which font emphasis captures attention and its effects...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 225 - 240 |
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