How Fast Can Predictability Influence Word Skipping During Reading?
Participants' eye movements were tracked when reading sentences in which target word predictability was manipulated to being unpredictable from the preceding context, predictable from the sentence preceding the one in which the target word was embedded, or predictable from the adjective directly pre...
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 1054 - 1064 |
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American Psychological Association
Jul2013
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