Tracking the mind during reading : the influence of past, present, and future words on fixation durations
- Reading requires the orchestration of visual, attentional, language-related, and oculomotor processing constraints. This study replicates previous effects of frequency, predictability, and length of fixated words on fixation durations in natural reading and demonstrates new effects of these variables related to previous and next words. Results are based on fixation durations recorded from 222 persons, each reading 144 sentences. Such evidence for distributed processing of words across fixation durations challenges psycholinguistic immediacy-of-processing and eye- mind assumptions. Most of the time the mind processes several words in parallel at different perceptual and cognitive levels. Eye movements can help to unravel these processes
| Author details: | Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND, Antje Nuthmann, Ralf EngbertORCiDGND |
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| URL: | http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePA.volumes&jcode=xge&vol=135&issue=1 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.135.1.12 |
| ISSN: | 0096-3445 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2006 |
| Publication year: | 2006 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
| Source: | Journal of experimental psychology / general. - ISSN 0096-3445. - 135 (2006), 1, S. 12 - 35 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
