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Abbott, Matthew J.; Angele, Bernhard; Ahn, Y. Danbi; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Readers tend to skip words, particularly when they are short, frequent, or predictable. Angele and Rayner (2013) recently reported that readers are often unable to detect syntactic anomalies in parafoveal vision. In the present study, we manipulated target word predictability to assess whether contextual constraint modulates…
Descriptors: Syntax, Experimental Psychology, Prediction, Context Effect
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Slattery, Timothy J.; Angele, Bernhard; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
In the boundary change paradigm (Rayner, 1975), when a reader's eyes cross an invisible boundary location, a preview word is replaced by a target word. Readers are generally unaware of such changes due to saccadic suppression. However, some readers detect changes on a few trials and a small percentage of them detect many changes. Two experiments…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Human Body, Word Processing