TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ghahghaei, Saeideh
A1  - Linnell, Karina J.
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Dubey, Amit
A1  - Davis, Robert
T1  - Effects of load on the time course of attentional engagement, disengagement, and orienting in reading
JF  - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology
N2  - We examined how the frequency of the fixated word influences the spatiotemporal distribution of covert attention during reading. Participants discriminated gaze-contingent probes that occurred with different spatial and temporal offsets from randomly chosen fixation points during reading. We found that attention was initially focused at fixation and that subsequent defocusing was slower when the fixated word was lower in frequency. Later in a fixation, attention oriented more towards the next saccadic target for high- than for low-frequency words. These results constitute the first report of the time course of the effect of load on attentional engagement and orienting in reading. They are discussed in the context of serial and parallel models of reading.
KW  - Attention
KW  - Load
KW  - Reading
KW  - Time course
KW  - Word frequency
KW  - Engagement
KW  - Disengagement
KW  - Orienting
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2011.635795
SN  - 1747-0218
VL  - 66
IS  - 3
SP  - 453
EP  - 470
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hove
ER  -