Spatial Coordinates and Reading: Comments on Monk (1985)

Alan Kennedy; Wayne S. Murray

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Spatial Coordinates and Reading: Comments on Monk (1985)

Alan Kennedy, Wayne S. Murray

Psychology

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Abstract

Subjects are able to process some texts when they are presented, word-byword, in a single physical location. As differential spatial information is not available in this task, Monk (1985a) argues that it need not be derived in normal reading. We suggest this conclusion is unwarranted, because subjects make large and very accurate regressive saccades to regions of previously fixated text. Without a representation of spatial coordinates this should not occur.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	649-656
Number of pages	8
Journal	The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
Volume	39
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14640748708401807
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 1987

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Kennedy, A., & Murray, W. S. (1987). Spatial Coordinates and Reading: Comments on Monk (1985). The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 39(4), 649-656. https://doi.org/10.1080/14640748708401807

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