Flexible parafoveal processing of character order is preserved in older readers.

IF 3.7 1区心理学 Q1 GERONTOLOGY

Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI:10.1037/pag0000883

Min Chang, Kuo Zhang, Lisha Hao, Kevin B Paterson, Kayleigh L Warrington, Jingxin Wang

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Abstract

Eye movement research in Chinese shows that young adults encode character order flexibly during parafoveal processing and that word predictability can influence this early processing stage. Whether these effects change in older age is unclear, although other research suggests older readers have reduced parafoveal processing capabilities. Using the boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975), we compared eye movement data from 60 young adults (18-30 years) with new data from 36 older adults (65-75 years). Participants read sentences with two-character target words of high or low predictability. Before their gaze crossed an invisible boundary, target words were presented normally (valid preview) or with characters transposed or replaced by unrelated characters (invalid previews). Previews reverted to normal once their gaze crossed the boundary. Our results reveal a larger word predictability effect for the older readers, while transposed-character effects were similar across groups, suggesting this intriguing aspect of parafoveal processing is preserved in aging readers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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在老年读者中保留了灵活的准中央凹处理字符顺序。

汉语眼动研究表明，青年人在旁中央凹加工过程中对文字顺序进行灵活编码，词语可预见性对这一早期加工阶段有影响。这些影响是否会随着年龄的增长而改变尚不清楚，尽管其他研究表明，老年读者的中央凹旁处理能力有所下降。使用边界范式（Rayner, 1975），我们比较了60名年轻人（18-30岁）和36名老年人（65-75岁）的眼动数据。参与者阅读带有两个字符目标词的句子，这些词有高可预测性和低可预测性。在他们的目光越过一个看不见的边界之前，目标词被正常呈现（有效预览），或者被调换或替换为不相关的字符（无效预览）。一旦他们的视线越过边界，预览就会恢复正常。我们的研究结果显示，年龄较大的读者对单词的可预见性有更大的影响，而调换字符的影响在各组之间是相似的，这表明这种有趣的旁中央凹处理在年龄较大的读者中得到了保留。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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期刊介绍： Psychology and Aging publishes original articles on adult development and aging. Such original articles include reports of research that may be applied, biobehavioral, clinical, educational, experimental (laboratory, field, or naturalistic studies), methodological, or psychosocial. Although the emphasis is on original research investigations, occasional theoretical analyses of research issues, practical clinical problems, or policy may appear, as well as critical reviews of a content area in adult development and aging. Clinical case studies that have theoretical significance are also appropriate. Brief reports are acceptable with the author"s agreement not to submit a full report to another journal.