Extraction of Linguistic Information from Successive Words during Reading: Evidence for Spatially Distributed Lexical Processing

Autor/inn/en	Wang, Chin-An; Inhoff, Albrecht W.
Titel	Extraction of Linguistic Information from Successive Words during Reading: Evidence for Spatially Distributed Lexical Processing
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39 (2013) 3, S.662-677 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0030242
Schlagwörter	Word Recognition; Eye Movements; Attention; Reader Text Relationship; Proximity; Spatial Ability; Language Processing; English; College Students; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Worterkennung; Augenbewegung; Aufmerksamkeit; Lebensnähe; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Sprachverarbeitung; English language; Englisch; Collegestudent
Abstract	Two experiments examined whether word recognition progressed from one word to the next during reading, as maintained by sequential attention shift models such as the E-Z Reader model. The boundary technique was used to control the visibility of to-be-identified short target words, so that they were either previewed in the parafovea or masked. The eyes skipped a masked target on more than a quarter of the trials, and the following fixation must have been mislocated, if word recognition and saccade targeting progressed from one word to the next. Readers responded to the skipping parafoveally masked target words with relatively long viewing duration for the following posttarget word or with corrective saccades that returned the eyes from the posttarget word to the target. Experiment 2 manipulated the time-line of posttarget onset after target skipping, so that the posttarget word was either visible immediately upon fixation or after a short delay. The delay influenced posttarget viewing even when attention should have been focused at the target location according to E-Z Reader 10 simulations. These findings favor theoretical conceptions according to which lexical processing can encompass more than one word at a time. (Contains 4 tables, 7 figures, and 8 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10