Visually complex foveal words increase the amount of parafoveal information acquired
- This study investigates the effect of foveal load (i.e., processing difficulty of currently fixated words) on parafoveal information processing. Contrary to the commonly accepted view that high foveal load leads to reduced parafoveal processing efficiency, results of the present study showed that increasing foveal visual (but not linguistic) processing load actually increased the amount of parafoveal information acquired, presumably due to the fact that longer fixation duration on the pretarget word provided more time for parafoveal processing of the target word. It is therefore proposed in the present study that foveal linguistic processing load is not the only factor that determines parafoveal processing; preview time (afforded by foveal word visual processing load) may jointly influence parafoveal processing. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Author details: | Ming YanORCiDGND |
|---|---|
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2015.03.025 |
| ISSN: | 0042-6989 |
| ISSN: | 1878-5646 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25911574 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Vision research : an international journal for functional aspects of vision. |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2015 |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | Chinese; Eye movements; Parafoveal processing; Reading |
| Volume: | 111 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| First page: | 91 |
| Last Page: | 96 |
| Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KL 955/18] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
