TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schotter, Elizabeth Roye
A1  - Leinenger, Mallorie
A1  - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban
T1  - When your mind skips what your eyes fixate
BT  - how forced fixations lead to comprehension illusions in reading
JF  - Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society
N2  - The phenomenon of forced fixations suggests that readers sometimes fixate a word (due to oculomotor constraints) even though they intended to skip it (due to parafoveal cognitive-linguistic processing). We investigate whether this leads readers to look directly at a word but not pay attention to it. We used a gaze-contingent boundary paradigm to dissociate parafoveal and foveal information (e.g., the word phone changed to scarf once the reader's eyes moved to it) and asked questions about the sentence to determine which one the reader encoded. When the word was skipped or fixated only briefly (i.e., up to 100 ms) readers were more likely to report reading the parafoveal than the fixated word, suggesting that there are cases in which readers look directly at a word but their minds ignore it, leading to the illusion of reading something they did not fixate.
KW  - Word recognition
KW  - Text comprehension
KW  - Eye movements and reading
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1356-y
SN  - 1069-9384
SN  - 1531-5320
VL  - 25
IS  - 5
SP  - 1884
EP  - 1890
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -