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Slattery, Timothy J.; Schotter, Elizabeth R.; Berry, Raymond W.; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The processing of abbreviations in reading was examined with an eye movement experiment. Abbreviations were of 2 distinct types: acronyms (abbreviations that can be read with the normal grapheme-phoneme correspondence [GPC] rules, such as NASA) and initialisms (abbreviations in which the GPCs are letter names, such as NCAA). Parafoveal and foveal…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Letters (Correspondence), Models
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Johnson, Rebecca L.; Perea, Manuel; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Three eye movement experiments were conducted to examine the role of letter identity and letter position during reading. Before fixating on a target word within each sentence, readers were provided with a parafoveal preview that differed in the amount of useful letter identity and letter position information it provided. In Experiments 1 and 2,…
Descriptors: Human Body, Silent Reading, Eye Movements, Word Recognition