Deaf readers use leftward information to read more efficiently: Evidence from eye tracking.

IF 1.5 3区心理学 Q4 PHYSIOLOGY

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-07 DOI:10.1177/17470218241232407

Casey Stringer, Frances Cooley, Emily Saunders, Karen Emmorey, Elizabeth R Schotter

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Abstract

Little is known about how information to the left of fixation impacts reading and how it may help to integrate what has been read into the context of the sentence. To better understand the role of this leftward information and how it may be beneficial during reading, we compared the sizes of the leftward span for reading-matched deaf signers (n = 32) and hearing adults (n = 40) using a gaze-contingent moving window paradigm with windows of 1, 4, 7, 10, and 13 characters to the left, as well as a no-window condition. All deaf participants were prelingually and profoundly deaf, used American Sign Language (ASL) as a primary means of communication, and were exposed to ASL before age eight. Analysis of reading rates indicated that deaf readers had a leftward span of 10 characters, compared to four characters for hearing readers, and the size of the span was positively related to reading comprehension ability for deaf but not hearing readers. These findings suggest that deaf readers may engage in continued word processing of information obtained to the left of fixation, making reading more efficient, and showing a qualitatively different reading process than hearing readers.

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快讯聋人读者利用左向信息提高阅读效率：来自眼动跟踪的证据

对于定点左侧的信息如何影响阅读，以及如何帮助将阅读内容融入句子的上下文中，我们知之甚少。为了更好地了解左侧信息的作用以及它在阅读过程中的益处，我们使用凝视条件下的移动窗口范式，比较了与阅读匹配的聋人手语者（32 人）和听力成年人（40 人）的左侧跨度大小，窗口分别为左侧 1、4、7、10 和 13 个字符，以及无窗口条件。所有聋人参与者均为舌前和极重度聋人，以 ASL 为主要交流方式，并在八岁之前接触过 ASL。对阅读率的分析表明，聋人读者的向左跨度为 10 个字符，而听人读者为 4 个字符，跨度的大小与聋人读者的阅读理解能力呈正相关，而与听人读者无关。这些研究结果表明，聋人读者可能会对定点左侧获得的信息进行持续的文字处理，从而提高阅读效率，并显示出与听力读者不同的阅读过程。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 医学-生理学

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

5.90%

发文量

178

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

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