Visually complex foveal words increase the amount of parafoveal information acquired
- 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.
| Verfasserangaben: | Ming YanORCiDGND |
|---|---|
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2015.03.025 |
| ISSN: | 0042-6989 |
| ISSN: | 1878-5646 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25911574 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Vision research : an international journal for functional aspects of vision. |
| Verlag: | Elsevier |
| Verlagsort: | Oxford |
| Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2015 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 27.03.2017 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Chinese; Eye movements; Parafoveal processing; Reading |
| Band: | 111 |
| Seitenanzahl: | 6 |
| Erste Seite: | 91 |
| Letzte Seite: | 96 |
| Fördernde Institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KL 955/18] |
| Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer Review: | Referiert |
| Name der Einrichtung zum Zeitpunkt der Publikation: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
