Publications by authors named "Martha E Crosby"

Seeking health information is one of the leading uses for the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). Research has found the amount one benefits from e-Health information (health information from electronic sources) is directly related to the level of e-Health literacy. e-Health literacy is defined as "the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem.

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Differences between the enumeration of very small (1-3) versus larger (4-6) numerosities were examined by investigating where people fixate when they are enumerating different numbers of items. Overall, fixations were more likely to be located in regions of the array that contained target items when the array contained 4 or more targets than when it contained 3 or fewer, a result that is consistent with previous research indicating that the enumeration of very small sets is less dependent on attentional processing than is the enumeration of larger sets. However, both the pattern of fixations across different distractor conditions and an analysis of the temporal course of fixations in the absence of distractors were inconsistent with a dichotomous distinction between pre-attentive and attentional forms of enumeration.

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