Reading strategy modulates parafoveal-on-foveal effects in sentence reading
- Task demands and individual differences have been linked reliably to word skipping during reading. Such differences in fixation probability may imply a selection effect for multivariate analyses of eye-movement corpora if selection effects correlate with word properties of skipped words. For example, with fewer fixations on short and highly frequent words the power to detect parafoveal-on-foveal effects is reduced. We demonstrate that increasing the fixation probability on function words with a manipulation of the expected difficulty and frequency of questions reduces an age difference in skipping probability (i.e., old adults become comparable to young adults) and helps to uncover significant parafoveal-on-foveal effects in this group of old adults. We discuss implications for the comparison of results of eye-movement research based on multivariate analysis of corpus data with those from display-contingent manipulations of target words.
Author details: | Christiane Wotschack, Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2011.625094 |
ISSN: | 1747-0218 |
Title of parent work (English): | The quarterly journal of experimental psychology |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Place of publishing: | Hove |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2013 |
Publication year: | 2013 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | Distributed processing; Eye movements in reading; Fixational selectivity; Parafoveal-on-foveal effects; Reading strategy |
Volume: | 66 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 15 |
First page: | 548 |
Last Page: | 562 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |