The present study explores the role of the word position-in-text in sentence and
paragraph reading. Three eye-movement data sets based on the reading of Dutch and German unrelated sentences reveal a sizeable, replicable increase in reading times over several words in the beginning and the end of sentences. The data from the paragraphbased English-language Dundee corpus replicate the pattern and also indicate that the increase in inspection times is driven by the visual boundaries of the text organized in lines, rather than by syntactic sentence boundaries. We argue that this effect is independent of several established lexical, contextual and oculomotor predictors of eye-movement behavior. We also provide evidence that the effect of word position-intext
has two independent components: a start-up effect arguably caused by a strategic
oculomotor program of saccade planning over the line of text, and a wrap-up effect originating in cognitive processes of comprehension and semantic integration.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:5682 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Kuperman, Victor, Dambacher, Michael, Nuthmann, Antje, Kliegl, Reinhold |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Postprint |
| Source | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. - ISSN 1747-0218. 63 (2010), 9, S. 1838 — 1857 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php, Volltextzugriff: Universitätsverlag - eingeschränkter Zugriff |
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