TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Pan, Jinger
A1  - Laubrock, Jochen
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Shu, Hua
T1  - Parafoveal processing efficiency in rapid automatized naming a comparison between Chinese normal and dyslexic children
T2  - Journal of experimental child psychology
N2  - Dyslexic children are known to be slower than normal readers in rapid automatized naming (RAN). This suggests that dyslexics encounter local processing difficulties, which presumably induce a narrower perceptual span. Consequently, dyslexics should suffer less than normal readers from removing parafoveal preview. Here we used a gaze-contingent moving window paradigm in a RAN task to experimentally test this prediction. Results indicate that dyslexics extract less parafoveal information than control children. We propose that more attentional resources are recruited to the foveal processing because of dyslexics' less automatized translation of visual symbols into phonological output, thereby causing a reduction of the perceptual span. This in turn leads to less efficient preactivation of parafoveal information and, hence, more difficulty in processing the next foveal item.
KW  - Dyslexia
KW  - Eye movement
KW  - Perceptual span
KW  - Rapid automatized naming
KW  - Parafoveal processing
KW  - Linear mixed model
Y1  - 2013
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34906
SN  - 0022-0965
VL  - 115
IS  - 3
SP  - 579
EP  - 589
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -