Reading requires the orchestration of visual, attentional, language-related, and oculomotor processing constraints. This study replicates previous effects of frequency, predictability, and length of fixated words on fixation durations in natural reading and demonstrates new effects of these variables related to previous and next words. Results are based on fixation durations recorded
from 222 persons, each reading 144 sentences. Such evidence for distributed processing of words across fixation durations challenges psycholinguistic immediacy-of-processing and eye-mind assumptions. Most of the time the mind processes several words in parallel at different perceptual and cognitive levels. Eye movements can help to unravel these processes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:5722 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Kliegl, Reinhold, Nuthmann, Antje, Engbert, Ralf |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Psychologie |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Postprint |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. - ISSN: 0096-3445. - 135 (2003), 1, S. 12 - 35 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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