Eye guidance in reading and scene perception /

The distinguished contributors to this volume have been set the problem of describing how we know where to move our eyes. There is a great deal of current interest in the use of eye movement recordings to investigate various mental processes. The common theme is that variations in eye movements indi...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Underwood, Geoffrey Geoffrey D. M
Published: Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; New York :
Publication Dates: 1998.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080433615
Summary: The distinguished contributors to this volume have been set the problem of describing how we know where to move our eyes. There is a great deal of current interest in the use of eye movement recordings to investigate various mental processes. The common theme is that variations in eye movements indicate variations in the processing of what is being perceived, whether in reading, driving or scene perception. However, a number of problems of interpretation are now emerging, and this edited volume sets out to address these problems. The book investigates controversies concerning the variations
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xi, 466 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080433615
0080433618
0585473986
9780585473987
0080506232
9780080506234
1280927267
9781280927263
Index Number: QP477
CLC: R339.14
Contents: Preface. Contributors. Eye guidance and visual information processing: reading, visual search, picture perception and driving (G. Underwood, R. Radach). Definition and computation of oculomotor measures in the study of cognitive processes (A.W. Inhoff, R. Radach). Eye movements and measures of reading time (S.P. Liversedge <IT>et al</IT>.). Determinants of fixation positions in words during reading (R. Radach, G.W. McConkie). About regressive saccades in reading in their relation to word identification (F. Vitu <IT>et al</IT>.). Word skipping: implications for theories of eye movement contro