Parafoveal-on-foveal effects in normal reading

Alan Kennedy; Joel Pynte

doi:10.1016/j.visres.2004.07.037

Parafoveal-on-foveal effects in normal reading

Alan Kennedy, Joel Pynte

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Abstract

A corpus of eye movement data derived from 10 English and 10 French participants, each reading about 50,000 words, was examined for evidence that properties of a word in parafoveal vision have an immediate effect on foveal inspection time. When inspecting a short word, there is evidence that the lexical frequency of an adjacent word affects processing time. When inspecting a long word, there are small effects of lexical frequency, but larger effects of initial-letter constraint and orthographic familiarity. Interactions of this kind are incompatible with models of reading which appeal to the operation of a serial attention switch.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	153-168
Number of pages	16
Journal	Vision Research
Volume	45
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2004.07.037
Publication status	Published - Jan 2005

Keywords

Reading
Parafoveal-on-foveal effects
Eye movement control

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