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Parafoveal perception during sentence reading? An ERP paradigm using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) with flankers

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: We describe a new procedure using event-related brain potentials to investigate parafoveal word processing during sentence reading. Sentences were presented word by word at fixation, flanked 2° bilaterally by letter strings. Flanker strings were pseudowords, except for the third word in each sentence, which was flanked by either two pseudowords or a pseudoword and a word, one on each side. Flanker words were either semantically congruent or incongruent with the sentence context. P2 (175-375 ms) amplitudes were less positive for contextually incongruent than congruent flanker words but only with flanker words in the right visual field for English and in the left visual field in Hebrew. Flankered word presentation thus may be a suitable method for the electrophysiological study of parafoveal perception during sentence reading.

Source: Psychophysiology

DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01082.x

Authors: Horacio A. Barber, Shir Ben‐Zvi, Shlomo Bentin, Marta Kutas

Institutions: Universidad de La Laguna, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California San Diego

Language: English

Topic: Reading and Literacy Development

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Aging, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Brain Potentials (ERPS) Language, Memory, and Aging, G3369592969, G4223609185, Electrophysiology of Linguistic Processing