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The dynamic adjustment of saccades during Chinese reading: Evidence from eye movements and simulations.

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: clusters were modulated by the processing difficulty (i.e., gap sizes) of those clusters. Simulations using implemented versions of default-targeting (Yan, Kliegl, Richter, Nuthmann, & Shu, 2010) versus dynamic-adjustment (Liu, Reichle, & Li, 2016) models of saccadic targeting indicated that the latter provided a better account of our participants' eye movements, further supporting the hypothesis that Chinese readers "decide" where to move their eyes by adjusting saccade length in response to processing difficulty rather than by selecting default saccade targets. We discuss this hypothesis in relation to both what is known about saccadic targeting during the reading of English versus Chinese and current models of eye-movement control in reading. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000595

Authors: Yanping Liu, Lei Yu, Erik D. Reichle

Institutions: Sun Yat-sen University, Macquarie University

Language: English

Topic: Reading and Literacy Development

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Institutes of Health, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: G4261103297, G4425780623, Cognitive Load in the Bilingual Brain: Insights from Decoupled Reading