Do Chinese Readers Obtain Preview Benefit From Word n + 2? Evidence From Eye Movements

The boundary paradigm ( K. Rayner, 1975 ) was used to determine the extent to which Chinese readers obtain information from the right of fixation during reading. As characters are the basic visual unit in written Chinese, they were used as targets in Experiment 1 to examine whether readers obtain pr...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 2009-08, Vol.35 (4), p.1192-1204
Main Authors: Yang, Jinmian, Wang, Suiping, Xu, Yimin, Rayner, Keith
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asian people
Biological and medical sciences
Characters
China
Chinese
Chinese people
English
Experimental psychology
Experiments
Eye fixation
Eye Movements
Eye Movements - physiology
Fixation
Fixation, Ocular - physiology
Fovea Centralis - physiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Information processing
Language
Production and perception of written language
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reader Text Relationship
Reading
Reading Fluency
Time Factors
Visual Fields - physiology
Written Language
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Summary:The boundary paradigm ( K. Rayner, 1975 ) was used to determine the extent to which Chinese readers obtain information from the right of fixation during reading. As characters are the basic visual unit in written Chinese, they were used as targets in Experiment 1 to examine whether readers obtain preview information from character n + 1 and character n + 2. The results from Experiment 1 suggest they do. In Experiment 2, 2-character target words were used to determine whether readers obtain preview information from word n + 2 as well as word n + 1. Robust preview effects were obtained for word n + 1. There was also evidence from gaze duration (but not first fixation duration), suggesting preview effects for word n + 2. Moreover, there was evidence for parafoveal-on-foveal effects in Chinese reading in both experiments. Implications of these results for models of eye movement control are discussed.
ISSN:0096-1523
1939-1277
DOI:10.1037/a0013554