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Rational eye movements in reading combining uncertainty about previous words with contextual probability

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: While there exist a range of sophisticated models of eye movements in reading, it remains an open question to what extent human eye movement behavior during reading is adaptive given the demands of the task.In this paper, we help to answer this question by presenting a model of reading that corrects two problems with a rational model of the task, Mr. Chips (Legge, Klitz, & Tjan, 1997).We show that the resulting model is closer to human performance across two measures, supporting the idea that many components of eye movement behavior in reading can be well understood as a rational response to the demands of the task.

Source: eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Authors: Klinton Bicknell, Roger Lévy

Institution: 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 Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, University of California, San Diego, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Awards: G2976886999, Language, Communication and the Brain, G6887280901, CAREER: Rational Language Processing with Uncertain and Noisy Input, G9000344289

OpenAlex ID: W58860268

FWCI: 4.298

Cites: 16

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10