TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pan, Jinger
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Laubrock, Jochen
A1  - Shu, Hua
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Saccade-target selection of dyslexic children when reading Chinese
T2  - Vision research : an international journal for functional aspects of vision.
N2  - This study investigates the eye movements of dyslexic children and their age-matched controls when reading Chinese. Dyslexic children exhibited more and longer fixations than age-matched control children, and an increase of word length resulted in a greater increase in the number of fixations and gaze durations for the dyslexic than for the control readers. The report focuses on the finding that there was a significant difference between the two groups in the fixation landing position as a function of word length in single-fixation cases, while there was no such difference in the initial fixation of multi-fixation cases. We also found that both groups had longer incoming saccade amplitudes while the launch sites were closer to the word in single fixation cases than in multi-fixation cases. Our results suggest that dyslexic children's inefficient lexical processing, in combination with the absence of orthographic word boundaries in Chinese, leads them to select saccade targets at the beginning of words conservatively. These findings provide further evidence for parafoveal word segmentation during reading of Chinese sentences.
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Dyslexic children
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Saccade-target selection
KW  - Reading
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37964
SN  - 0042-6989
SN  - 1878-5646
VL  - 97
SP  - 24
EP  - 30
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -