Effects of Individual Differences in Verbal Skills on Eye-Movement Patterns during Sentence Reading

Autor/inn/en	Kuperman, Victor; Van Dyke, Julie A.
Titel	Effects of Individual Differences in Verbal Skills on Eye-Movement Patterns during Sentence Reading
Quelle	In: Journal of Memory and Language, 65 (2011) 1, S.42-73 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0749-596X
DOI	10.1016/j.jml.2011.03.002
Schlagwörter	Reading Difficulties; Sentences; Intelligence Tests; Human Body; Reading Skills; Thinking Skills; Individual Differences; Verbal Ability; Eye Movements; Language Tests; Statistical Analysis; Scores; Prediction; Word Recognition; Reading Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Menschlicher Körper; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Denkfähigkeit; Individueller Unterschied; Mündliche Leistung; Augenbewegung; Language test; Sprachtest; Statistische Analyse; Vorhersage; Worterkennung; Lesetest
Abstract	This study is a large-scale exploration of the influence that individual reading skills exert on eye-movement behavior in sentence reading. Seventy-one non-college-bound 16-24 year-old speakers of English completed a battery of 18 verbal and cognitive skill assessments, and read a series of sentences as their eye-movements were monitored. Statistical analyses were performed to establish what tests of reading abilities were predictive of eye-movement patterns across this population and how strong the effects were. We found that individual scores in rapid automatized naming and word identification tests (i) were the only participant variables with reliable predictivity throughout the time-course of reading; (ii) elicited effects that superceded in magnitude the effects of established predictors like word length or frequency; and (iii) strongly modulated the influence of word length and frequency on fixation times. We discuss implications of our findings for testing reading ability, as well as for research of eye-movements in reading. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10