A similar correction mechanism in slow and fluent readers after suboptimal landing positions.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Benjamin eGagl¹  Florian eHutzler¹  Stefan eHawelka¹ 

[1] University of Salzburg;

关键词: Eye Movements;    reading;    landing position;    slow readers;    corrective re-fixations;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnhum.2014.00355

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The present eye movements study investigated the optimal viewing position (OVP) and inverted-optimal viewing position (I-OVP) effects in slow readers. The basis of these effects is a phenomenon called corrective re-fixations, which describes a short saccade from a suboptimal landing position (word beginning or end) to the center of the word. The present study found corrective re-fixations in slow readers, which was evident from the I-OVP effects in first fixation durations, the OVP effect in number of fixations and the OVP effect in re-fixation probability. The main result is that slow readers, despite being characterized by a fragmented eye movement pattern during reading, nevertheless share an intact mechanism for performing corrective re-fixations. This correction mechanism is not linked to linguistic processing, but to visual and oculomotor processes, which suggests the integrity of oculomotor and visual processes in slow readers.

【 授权许可】

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