Complexity of eye movements in reading
- During reading, our eyes perform complicated sequences of fixations on words. Stochastic models of eye movement control suggest that this seemingly erratic behaviour can be attributed to noise in the oculomotor system and random fluctuations in lexical processing. Here, we present a qualitative analysis of a recently published dynamical model [Engbert et al., 2002] and propose that deterministic nonlinear control accounts for much of the observed complexity of eye movement patterns during reading. Based on a symbolic coding technique we analyze robust statistical features of simulated fixation sequences
Author details: | Ralf EngbertORCiDGND, Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND, Andre Longtin |
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Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2004 |
Publication year: | 2004 |
Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
Source: | International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. - 14 (2004), S. 493 - 501 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Nicht ermittelbar |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |