Eye movements of highly skilled and average readers: differential effects of frequency and predictability.

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology Pub Date : 2005-08-01 DOI:10.1080/02724980443000476

Jane Ashby, Keith Rayner, Charles Clifton

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Abstract

This study offers a glimpse of the moment-by-moment processes used by highly skilled and average readers during silent reading. The eye movements of adult readers were monitored while they silently read sentences. Fixation durations and the spatial-temporal patterns of eye movements were examined to see whether the two groups of readers exhibited differential effects of frequency and/or predictability. In Experiment 1, high- and low-frequency target words were embedded in nonconstraining sentence contexts. In Experiment 2, the same participants read high- and low-frequency target words that were either predictable or unpredictable, embedded in highly constraining sentence contexts. Results indicated that when target words appeared in highly constraining sentence contexts, the average readers showed different effects of frequency and predictability from those shown in the highly skilled readers. It appears that reading skill can interact with predictability to affect the word recognition processes used during silent reading.

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高技能读者和普通读者的眼球运动:频率和可预测性的不同影响。

这项研究提供了高技能和普通读者在默读过程中使用的瞬间过程的一瞥。当成年读者默读句子时，他们的眼球运动被监控。研究人员检查了注视时间和眼球运动的时空模式，以观察两组读者对频率和/或可预测性是否表现出不同的影响。在实验1中，高频目标词和低频目标词被嵌入到非限制性句子语境中。在实验2中，同样的参与者阅读高频率和低频率的目标词，这些词要么是可预测的，要么是不可预测的，嵌入在高度限制性的句子语境中。结果表明，当目标词出现在高度限制性的句子语境中时，普通阅读者和高技能阅读者表现出不同的频率和可预测性。阅读技能与可预测性相互作用，影响默读时的单词识别过程。

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