Eye movements guided by morphological structure: Evidence from the Uighur language
- It is generally accepted that low-level features (e.g., inter-word spaces) are responsible for saccade-target selection in eye-movement control during reading. In two experiments using Uighur script known for its rich suffixes, we demonstrate that, in addition to word length and launch site, the number of suffixes influences initial landing positions. We also demonstrate an influence of word frequency. These results are difficult to explain purely by low-level guidance of eye movements and indicate that due to properties specific to Uighur script low-level visual information and high-level information such as morphological structure of parafoveal words jointly influence saccade programming. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Author details: | Ming YanORCiDGND, Wei Zhou, Hua Shu, Rizwangul Yusupu, Dongxia Miao, Andre Kruegel, Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.03.008 |
| ISSN: | 0010-0277 |
| ISSN: | 1873-7838 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24813572 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Cognition : international journal of cognitive science |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2014 |
| Publication year: | 2014 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | Eye movements; Landing position; Morphological structure; Uighur |
| Volume: | 132 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 35 |
| First page: | 181 |
| Last Page: | 215 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
