TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wang, Aiping
A1  - Zhou, Wei
A1  - Shu, Hua
A1  - Yan, Ming
T1  - Reading proficiency modulates parafoveal processing efficiency: Evidence from reading Chinese as a second language
T2  - Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics
N2  - In the present study, we manipulated different types of information available in the parafovea during the reading of Chinese sentences and examined how native Korean readers who learned Chinese as a second language make use of the parafoveal information. Results clearly indicate that, only identical and orthographically similar previews facilitated processing of the target words when they were subsequently fixated. More critically, more parafoveal information was obtained by subjects with higher reading proficiency. These results suggest that, mainly low-level features of the parafoveal words are obtained by the non-native Chinese readers and less attentional resources are available for the readers with lower reading proficiency, thereby causing a reduction of the perceptual span.
KW  - Parafoveal
KW  - Sentence reading
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Korean readers
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37501
SN  - 0001-6918
SN  - 1873-6297
VL  - 152
SP  - 29
EP  - 33
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -