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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
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Pollatsek, Alexander; Juhasz, Barbara J.; Reichle, Erik D.; Machacek, Debra; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Three experiments examined the effects in sentence reading of varying the frequency and length of an adjective on (a) fixations on the adjective and (b) fixations on the following noun. The gaze duration on the adjective was longer for low frequency than for high frequency adjectives and longer for long adjectives than for short adjectives. This…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Nouns, Word Frequency, Sentences