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Rayner, Keith; Slattery, Timothy J.; Drieghe, Denis; Liversedge, Simon P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Eye movements were monitored as subjects read sentences containing high- or low-predictable target words. The extent to which target words were predictable from prior context was varied: Half of the target words were predictable, and the other half were unpredictable. In addition, the length of the target word varied: The target words were short…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Human Body
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Drieghe, Denis; Pollatsek, Alexander; Staub, Adrian; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
The distribution of landing positions and durations of first fixations in a region containing a noun preceded by either an article (e.g., the soldiers) or a high-frequency 3-letter word (e.g., all soldiers) were compared. Although there were fewer first fixations on the blank space between the high-frequency 3-letter word and the noun than on the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Nouns, Human Body, Reading Processes