TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhou, Wei
A1  - Wang, Aiping
A1  - Shu, Hua
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Yan, Ming
T1  - Word segmentation by alternating colors facilitates eye guidance in Chinese reading
JF  - Memory & cognition
N2  - During sentence reading, low spatial frequency information afforded by spaces between words is the primary factor for eye guidance in spaced writing systems, whereas saccade generation for unspaced writing systems is less clear and under debate. In the present study, we investigated whether word-boundary information, provided by alternating colors (consistent or inconsistent with word-boundary information) influences saccade-target selection in Chinese. In Experiment 1, as compared to a baseline (i.e., uniform color) condition, word segmentation with alternating color shifted fixation location towards the center of words. In contrast, incorrect word segmentation shifted fixation location towards the beginning of words. In Experiment 2, we used a gaze-contingent paradigm to restrict the color manipulation only to the upcoming parafoveal words and replicated the results, including fixation location effects, as observed in Experiment 1. These results indicate that Chinese readers are capable of making use of parafoveal word-boundary knowledge for saccade generation, even if such information is unfamiliar to them. The present study provides novel support for the hypothesis that word segmentation is involved in the decision about where to fixate next during Chinese reading.
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Word segmentation
KW  - Fixation location
KW  - Parafoveal
KW  - Color
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0797-5
SN  - 0090-502X
SN  - 1532-5946
VL  - 46
IS  - 5
SP  - 729
EP  - 740
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hyona, Jukka
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Vainio, Seppo
T1  - Morphological structure influences the initial landing position in words during reading Finnish
JF  - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology
N2  - The preferred viewing location in words [Rayner, K. (1979). Eye guidance in reading: Fixation locations within words. Perception, 8, 21–30] during reading is near the word centre. Parafoveal word length information is utilized to guide the eyes toward it. A recent study by Yan and colleagues [Yan, M., Zhou, W., Shu, H., Yusupu, R., Miao, D., Krügel, A., & Kliegl, R. (2014). Eye movements guided by morphological structure: Evidence from the Uighur language. Cognition, 132, 181–215] demonstrated that the word’s morphological structure may also be used in saccadic targeting. The study was conducted in a morphologically rich language, Uighur. The present study aimed at replicating their main findings in another morphologically rich language, Finnish. Similarly to Yan et al., it was found that the initial fixation landed closer to the word beginning for morphologically complex than for monomorphemic words. Word frequency, saccade launch site, and word length were also found to influence the initial landing position. It is concluded that in addition to low-level factors (word length and saccade launch site), also higher level factors related to the word’s morphological structure and frequency may be utilized in saccade programming during reading.
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Morphological structure
KW  - Reading
KW  - Saccades
KW  - Word frequency
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1267233
SN  - 1747-0218
SN  - 1747-0226
VL  - 71
IS  - 1
SP  - 122
EP  - 130
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -