TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Pan, Jinger
A1  - Chang, Wenshuo
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Read sideways or not: vertical saccade advantage in sentence reading
JF  - Reading and writing : an interdisciplinary journal
N2  - 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.
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Eye movement
KW  - Reading
KW  - Text orientation
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-018-9930-x
SN  - 0922-4777
SN  - 1573-0905
VL  - 32
IS  - 8
SP  - 1911
EP  - 1926
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Laurinavichyute, Anna
A1  - Sekerina, Irina A.
A1  - Alexeeva, Svetlana
A1  - Bagdasaryan, Kristine
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Russian Sentence Corpus: Benchmark measures of eye movements in reading in Russian
JF  - Behavior research methods : a journal of the Psychonomic Society
N2  - This article introduces a new corpus of eye movements in silent readingthe Russian Sentence Corpus (RSC). Russian uses the Cyrillic script, which has not yet been investigated in cross-linguistic eye movement research. As in every language studied so far, we confirmed the expected effects of low-level parameters, such as word length, frequency, and predictability, on the eye movements of skilled Russian readers. These findings allow us to add Slavic languages using Cyrillic script (exemplified by Russian) to the growing number of languages with different orthographies, ranging from the Roman-based European languages to logographic Asian ones, whose basic eye movement benchmarks conform to the universal comparative science of reading (Share, 2008). We additionally report basic descriptive corpus statistics and three exploratory investigations of the effects of Russian morphology on the basic eye movement measures, which illustrate the kinds of questions that researchers can answer using the RSC. The annotated corpus is freely available from its project page at the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/x5q2r/.
KW  - Reading
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Russian
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Part of speech
KW  - Corpus
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1051-6
SN  - 1554-351X
SN  - 1554-3528
VL  - 51
IS  - 3
SP  - 1161
EP  - 1178
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ehm, Jan-Henning
A1  - Lonnemann, Jan
A1  - Brandenburg, Janin
A1  - Huschka, Sina Simone
A1  - Hasselhorn, Marcus
A1  - Lervag, Arne
T1  - Exploring factors underlying children’s acquisition and retrieval of sound sound-symbol association skills
JF  - Journal of experimental child psychology
N2  - Letter knowledge is considered an important cognitive foundation for learning to read. The underlying mechanisms of the association between letter knowledge and reading skills are, however, not fully understood. Acquiring letter knowledge depends on the ability to learn and retrieve sound–symbol pairings. In the current study, this process was explored by setting preschool children’s (N = 242, mean age = 5.57 years) performance in the acquisition and retrieval of a paired associate learning (PAL) task in relation to their letter knowledge as well as to their performance in tasks assessing precursors of reading skills (i.e., phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, phonological short-term memory, backward recall, and response inhibition). Multiple regression analyses revealed that performance in the acquisition of the PAL task was significantly associated with phonological awareness and backward recall, whereas performance in the retrieval of the PAL task was significantly associated with rapid automatized naming, phonological awareness, and backward recall. Moreover, PAL proved to be mediating the relation between reading precursors and letter knowledge. Together, these findings indicate that the acquisition of letter knowledge may depend on a visual–verbal associative learning mechanism and that different factors contribute to the acquisition and retrieval of such visual–verbal associations.
KW  - Visual-verbal associative learning
KW  - Phonological awareness
KW  - Letter knowledge
KW  - Rapid automatized naming
KW  - Working memory
KW  - Reading
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.07.006
SN  - 0022-0965
SN  - 1096-0457
VL  - 177
SP  - 86
EP  - 99
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  -