Eye fixations and cognitive processes
Cognitive PsychologyPublished 1 October 1976
Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter
Citations1,673
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Abstract
This paper presents a theoretical account of the sequence and duration of eye fixation during a number of simple cognitive tasks, such as mental rotation, sentence verification, and quantitative comparison. In each case, the eye fixation behavior is linked to a processing model for the task by assuming that the eye fixates the referent of the symbol being operated on.
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