TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
T1  - Visually complex foveal words increase the amount of parafoveal information acquired
T2  - Vision research : an international journal for functional aspects of vision.
N2  - This study investigates the effect of foveal load (i.e., processing difficulty of currently fixated words) on parafoveal information processing. Contrary to the commonly accepted view that high foveal load leads to reduced parafoveal processing efficiency, results of the present study showed that increasing foveal visual (but not linguistic) processing load actually increased the amount of parafoveal information acquired, presumably due to the fact that longer fixation duration on the pretarget word provided more time for parafoveal processing of the target word. It is therefore proposed in the present study that foveal linguistic processing load is not the only factor that determines parafoveal processing; preview time (afforded by foveal word visual processing load) may jointly influence parafoveal processing. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Reading
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Parafoveal processing
KW  - Chinese
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38875
SN  - 0042-6989
SN  - 1878-5646
VL  - 111
SP  - 91
EP  - 96
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -