University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Eye position and word identification during reading

McConkie, G.W.; Hogaboam, Thomas W.

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Title
Eye position and word identification during reading
Author(s)
  • McConkie, G.W.
  • Hogaboam, Thomas W.
Issue Date
1985-04
Keyword(s)
  • saccades
  • fixation
  • anticipation model of reading
  • peripheral cues
Abstract
College students read text displayed by computer as their eyes were being monitored. On occasional fixations or saccades the text was removed and the subject reported the last word that had been read and tried to guess the next word. Distributions of the location of the last read word with respect to the last fixated word give an indication of what words are being read during a fixation. The data do not support an anticipation model of reading nor the acquisition of peripheral cues concerning upcoming words.
Publisher
  • Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for the Study of Reading.
  • Cambridge, Mass. : Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Series/Report Name or Number
Center for the Study of Reading Technical Report ; no. 333
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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Copyright 1985 Board of Trustees University of Illinois

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