Effects of load on the time course of attentional engagement, disengagement, and orienting in reading
- We examined how the frequency of the fixated word influences the spatiotemporal distribution of covert attention during reading. Participants discriminated gaze-contingent probes that occurred with different spatial and temporal offsets from randomly chosen fixation points during reading. We found that attention was initially focused at fixation and that subsequent defocusing was slower when the fixated word was lower in frequency. Later in a fixation, attention oriented more towards the next saccadic target for high- than for low-frequency words. These results constitute the first report of the time course of the effect of load on attentional engagement and orienting in reading. They are discussed in the context of serial and parallel models of reading.
| Author details: | Saeideh Ghahghaei, Karina J. Linnell, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND, Amit Dubey, Robert Davis |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2011.635795 |
| 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: | Attention; Disengagement; Engagement; Load; Orienting; Reading; Time course; Word frequency |
| Volume: | 66 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 18 |
| First page: | 453 |
| Last Page: | 470 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
