Eye Movement Control in Chinese Reading: A Cross-Sectional Study
- The present study explored the age-related changes of eye movement control in reading-that is, where to send the eyes and when to move them. Different orthographies present readers with somewhat different problems to solve, and this might, in turn, be reflected in different patterns of development of reading skill. Participants of different developmental levels (Grade 3, N = 30; Grade 5, N = 27 and adults, N = 27) were instructed to read sentences for comprehension while their eye movements were recorded. Contrary to previous findings that have been well documented indicating early maturation of saccade generation in English, current results showed that saccade generation among Chinese readers was still under development at Grade 5, although immediate lexical processing was relatively well-established. The distinct age-related changes in eye movements are attributable to certain linguistic properties of Chinese including the lack of interword spaces and word boundary uncertainty. The present study offers an example of how human eyeThe present study explored the age-related changes of eye movement control in reading-that is, where to send the eyes and when to move them. Different orthographies present readers with somewhat different problems to solve, and this might, in turn, be reflected in different patterns of development of reading skill. Participants of different developmental levels (Grade 3, N = 30; Grade 5, N = 27 and adults, N = 27) were instructed to read sentences for comprehension while their eye movements were recorded. Contrary to previous findings that have been well documented indicating early maturation of saccade generation in English, current results showed that saccade generation among Chinese readers was still under development at Grade 5, although immediate lexical processing was relatively well-established. The distinct age-related changes in eye movements are attributable to certain linguistic properties of Chinese including the lack of interword spaces and word boundary uncertainty. The present study offers an example of how human eye movement adapts to the orthographic environment.…
| Author details: | Ming YanORCiDGND, Jinger PanORCiD, Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000819 |
| ISSN: | 0012-1649 |
| ISSN: | 1939-0599 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31535894 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Developmental psychology |
| Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
| Place of publishing: | Washington |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2019/06/07 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Release date: | 2020/10/20 |
| Tag: | Chinese; development; eye movement; reading |
| Volume: | 55 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| First page: | 2275 |
| Last Page: | 2285 |
| Funding institution: | Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [KL 955/18]; Promoting Psychological Research in Community Grant of the Centre for Psychosocial Health, The Education University of Hong Kong; Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
