Preview benefits (PBs) from two words to the right of the fixated one (i.e., word N+2)and associated parafoveal-on-foveal effects are critical for proposals of distributed lexical processing during reading. This experiment examined parafoveal processing during reading of Chinese sentences, using a boundary manipulation of N+2-word preview with low- and high-frequency words N+1. The main findings were (a) an identity PB for word N+2 that was (b) primarily observed when word N+1 was of high frequency (i.e., an interaction between
frequency of word N+1 and PB for word N+2), and (c) a parafoveal-on-foveal frequency effect of word N+1 for fixation durations on word N. We discuss implications for theories of serial attention shifts and parallel distributed processing of words during reading.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:5710 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Ming, Yan, Kliegl, Reinhold, Shu, Hua, Pan, Jinger, Zhou, Xiaolin |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Psychologie, Extern. Extern |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Postprint |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. - ISSN 0096-1523. - 36 (2010), S. 1669-1676 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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