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Wang, Chin-An; Inhoff, Albrecht W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Two experiments examined whether word recognition progressed from one word to the next during reading, as maintained by sequential attention shift models such as the E-Z Reader model. The boundary technique was used to control the visibility of to-be-identified short target words, so that they were either previewed in the parafovea or masked. The…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Eye Movements, Attention, Reader Text Relationship
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Maye, Jessica; Aslin, Richard N.; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Two experiments investigated the mechanism by which listeners adjust their interpretation of accented speech that is similar to a regional dialect of American English. Only a subset of the vowels of English (the front vowels) were shifted during adaptation, which consisted of listening to a 20-min segment of the "Wizard of Oz." Compared…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Dialects, Vowels, North American English