TY  - GEN
A1  - Hohenstein, Sven
A1  - Laubrock, Jochen
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Semantic preview benefit in eye movements during reading: a parafoveal past-priming study
N2  - Eye movements in reading are sensitive to foveal and parafoveal word features. Whereas the influence of orthographic or phonological parafoveal information on gaze control is undisputed, there has been no reliable evidence for early parafoveal extraction of semantic information in alphabetic script. Using a novel combination of the gaze-contingent fast-priming and boundary paradigms, we demonstrate semantic preview benefit when a semantically related parafoveal word was available during the initial 125 ms of a fixation on the pre-target word (Experiments 1 and 2). When the target location was made more salient, significant parafoveal semantic priming occurred only at 80 ms (Experiment 3). Finally, with short primes only (20, 40, 60 ms) effects were not significant but numerically in the expected direction for 40 and 60 ms (Experiment 4). In all experiments, fixation durations on the target word increased with prime durations under all conditions. The evidence for extraction of semantic information from the parafoveal word favors an explanation in terms of parallel word processing in reading.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 261 
KW  - eye movements
KW  - reading
KW  - parafoveal preview
KW  - semantic priming
Y1  - 2011
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5519
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57203
ER  -