Evidence for Delayed Parafoveal-on-Foveal Effects from Word n+2 in Reading

Autor/inn/en	Risse, Sarah; Kliegl, Reinhold
Titel	Evidence for Delayed Parafoveal-on-Foveal Effects from Word n+2 in Reading
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38 (2012) 4, S.1026-1042 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0027735
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Familiarity; Word Frequency; Reading; Experiments; Human Body; Eye Movements; Visual Perception; Probability; Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; High School Students; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Leseprozess; Lesen; Erprobung; Menschlicher Körper; Augenbewegung; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Ausland; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Deutschland
Abstract	During reading information is acquired from word(s) beyond the word that is currently looked at. It is still an open question whether such parafoveal information can influence the current viewing of a word, and if so, whether such parafoveal-on-foveal effects are attributable to distributed processing or to mislocated fixations which occur when the eyes are directed at a parafoveal word but land on another word instead. In two display-change experiments, we orthogonally manipulated the preview and target difficulty of word n+2 to investigate the role of mislocated fixations on the previous word n+1. When the eyes left word n, an easy or difficult word n+2 preview was replaced by an easy or difficult n+2 target word. In Experiment 1, n+2 processing difficulty was manipulated by means of word frequency (i.e., easy high-frequency vs. difficult low-frequency word n+2). In Experiment 2, we varied the visual familiarity of word n+2 (i.e., easy lower-case vs. difficult alternating-case writing). Fixations on the short word n+1, which were likely to be mislocated, were nevertheless not influenced by the difficulty of the adjacent word n+2, the hypothesized target of the mislocated fixation. Instead word n+1 was influenced by the preview difficulty of word n+2, representing a delayed parafoveal-on-foveal effect. The results challenge the mislocated-fixation hypothesis as an explanation of parafoveal-on-foveal effects and provide new insight into the complex spatial and temporal effect structure of processing inside the perceptual span during reading. (Contains 3 figures, 1 footnote and 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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