Orthographic familiarity influences initial eye fixation positions in reading

By Sarah J. White, Simon P. Liversedge. 2004

99 citations recorded by the source corpus.

An important issue in the understanding of eye movements in reading is what kind of nonfoveal information can influence where we move our eyes. In Experiment 1, first fixation landing positions were nearer the beginning of misspelled words. Experiment 2 showed that the informativeness of word beginnings does not influence where words are first fixated. In both experiments, refixations were more likely to be to the left of the initial fixation position if the words were misspelled. Also, there was no influence of spelling on prior fixation durations or refixation probabilities, that is, there was no evidence for parafoveal‐on‐foveal effects. The results show that the orthographic familiarity, but not informativeness, of word initial letter sequences influences where words are first fixated.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/19f3d54f3eb0479a30d2b915b80e5229aef211fc

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Cognitive Neuroscience

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

In Human-Computer Interaction

Citations in the corpus

The 35th Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture: Eye movements and attention in reading, scene perception, and visual search (2009, unknown): “…can influence the duration of the current fixation (Drieghe, Brysbaert, & Desmet, 2005a; Inhoff, Starr, & Shindler, 2000b; Pynte, Kennedy, & Ducrot, 2004; Rayner, 1975; Starr & Inhoff, 2004), while other studies have found no such effects (Rayner et al., 2007a; White & Liversedge, 2004, 2006a).”
Parafoveal processing in reading (2011, background): “In a series of experiments, White and Liversedge (2004, 2006a, 2006b) showed that unusual orthographic properties of a word influenced where readers initially fixated in the word (see also Radach, Inhoff, & Heller, 2004).”