@article{YanPanKliegl2019,
  author    = {Yan, Ming and Pan, Jinger and Kliegl, Reinhold},
  title     = {Eye Movement Control in Chinese Reading: A Cross-Sectional Study},
  series = {Developmental psychology},
  volume    = {55},
  journal   = {Developmental psychology},
  number    = {11},
  publisher = {American Psychological Association},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {0012-1649},
  doi       = {10.1037/dev0000819},
  pages     = {2275 -- 2285},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The present study explored the age-related changes of eye movement control in reading-that is, where to send the eyes and when to move them. Different orthographies present readers with somewhat different problems to solve, and this might, in turn, be reflected in different patterns of development of reading skill. Participants of different developmental levels (Grade 3, N = 30; Grade 5, N = 27 and adults, N = 27) were instructed to read sentences for comprehension while their eye movements were recorded. Contrary to previous findings that have been well documented indicating early maturation of saccade generation in English, current results showed that saccade generation among Chinese readers was still under development at Grade 5, although immediate lexical processing was relatively well-established. The distinct age-related changes in eye movements are attributable to certain linguistic properties of Chinese including the lack of interword spaces and word boundary uncertainty. The present study offers an example of how human eye movement adapts to the orthographic environment.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{YanPanChangetal.2019,
  author    = {Yan, Ming and Pan, Jinger and Chang, Wenshuo and Kliegl, Reinhold},
  title     = {Read sideways or not: vertical saccade advantage in sentence reading},
  series = {Reading and writing : an interdisciplinary journal},
  volume    = {32},
  journal   = {Reading and writing : an interdisciplinary journal},
  number    = {8},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Dordrecht},
  issn      = {0922-4777},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11145-018-9930-x},
  pages     = {1911 -- 1926},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {During the reading of alphabetic scripts and scene perception, eye movements are programmed more efficiently in horizontal direction than in vertical direction. We propose that such a directional advantage may be due the overwhelming reading experience in the horizontal direction. Writing orientation is highly flexible for Traditional Chinese sentences. We compare horizontal and vertical eye movements during reading of such sentences and provide first evidence of a text-orientation effect on eye-movement control during reading. In addition to equivalent reading speed in both directions, more fine-grained analyses demonstrate a tradeoff between longer fixation durations and better fixation locations in vertical than in horizontal reading. Our results suggest that with extensive reading experience, Traditional Chinese readers can generate saccades more efficiently in vertical than in horizontal direction.},
  language  = {en}
}