Parafoveal-on-foveal effects in normal reading

TY - JOUR

T1 - Parafoveal-on-foveal effects in normal reading

AU - Kennedy, Alan

AU - Pynte, Joel

N1 - dc.publisher: Elsevier

PY - 2005/1

Y1 - 2005/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Reading

KW - Parafoveal-on-foveal effects

KW - Eye movement control

U2 - 10.1016/j.visres.2004.07.037

DO - 10.1016/j.visres.2004.07.037

M3 - Article

SN - 0042-6989

VL - 45

SP - 153

EP - 168

JO - Vision Research

JF - Vision Research

IS - 2

ER -