Skilled reading
comprehension requires an impressive coordination of visual attention, motor
control, and long-term memory retrieval. Because of its complexity, reading
behavior has provided an important testing-ground for cognitive psychologists
studying both visual attention and language processing. When your eyes land on
a particular word in this sentence, are you only attending to this specific
word? This is
an important question because parafoveal processing plays a critical role in
skilled reading, as well as a variety of other cognitive tasks, including
object recognition and visual search.
Current models of eye
movement control during reading make different predictions regarding the
possibility of parafoveal-on-foveal effects – i.e. whether the lexical
properties of upcoming, parafoveal words can affect reading time. While the
present results are most relevant for our understanding of eye movement
control, they also shed some light on the limitations of correlation reading
studies.
Annisa Masnasuri Kesai
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