TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Pan, Jinger
A1  - Chang, Wenshuo
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Read sideways or not: vertical saccade advantage in sentence reading
JF  - Reading and writing : an interdisciplinary journal
N2  - During the reading of alphabetic scripts and scene perception, eye movements are programmed more efficiently in horizontal direction than in vertical direction. We propose that such a directional advantage may be due the overwhelming reading experience in the horizontal direction. Writing orientation is highly flexible for Traditional Chinese sentences. We compare horizontal and vertical eye movements during reading of such sentences and provide first evidence of a text-orientation effect on eye-movement control during reading. In addition to equivalent reading speed in both directions, more fine-grained analyses demonstrate a tradeoff between longer fixation durations and better fixation locations in vertical than in horizontal reading. Our results suggest that with extensive reading experience, Traditional Chinese readers can generate saccades more efficiently in vertical than in horizontal direction.
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Eye movement
KW  - Reading
KW  - Text orientation
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-018-9930-x
SN  - 0922-4777
SN  - 1573-0905
VL  - 32
IS  - 8
SP  - 1911
EP  - 1926
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -