The effects of interword spacing on the eye movements of young and older readers
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= 147 words Word Count of Main Text = 5629 words The effects of interword spacing on the eye movements of young and older readers
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Aging and the use of interword spaces during reading: evidence from eye movements.
In an eye movement experiment, we assessed the performance of young (18-30 years) and older (65 + years) adult readers when sentences contained conventional interword spaces, when interword spaces were removed, or when interword spaces were replaced by nonlinguistic symbols. The replacement symbol was either a closed square ([Symbol: see text]) that provided a salient (low-spatial-frequency) cu...
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تاریخ انتشار 2016