What is the Basis for Making an Eye Movement during Reading? Technical Report No. 287.

Autor/inn/en	McConkie, George W.; und weitere
Institution	Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading.; Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Titel	What is the Basis for Making an Eye Movement during Reading? Technical Report No. 287.
Quelle	(1983), (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Processes; Eye Fixations; Eye Movements; Language Processing; Visual Perception; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Augenbewegung; Sprachverarbeitung; Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Abstract	At some time during every fixation a decision is made to move the eyes, directing them to a new location in the stimulus array. To understand the eye movement control processes, three general hypotheses concerning the cognitive basis for deciding to move the eyes were investigated: the saccade (movement) initiation time is determined only on the basis of information obtained prior to the current fixation; the saccade initiation occurs only after all processing of the presently viewed information has been completed; and the saccade initiation occurs when some processing event takes place before the processing of current information is completed. A review of current research indicates that (1) the time of initiating a saccade can be influenced by visual information acquired on the fixation which terminates in that saccade; (2) processing of the information is not necessarily completed by the time of the decision to move the eyes; (3) with fixations too short to process information, the next saccade must be based entirely on prior information; and (4) part of the variability in the saccade onset time may be associated with the amount of processing time elapsing before the information is utilized. (MM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC