Undersweep fixations during reading in adults and children
Authors: Parker, A.J., Kirkby, J.A. and Slattery, T.J.
Journal: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume: 192
eISSN: 1096-0457
ISSN: 0022-0965
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104788
Abstract:Return sweeps take a reader's fixation from the end of one line to the start of the next. Return sweeps frequently undershoot their target and are followed by a corrective saccade toward the left margin. The pauses prior to corrective saccades are typically considered to be uninvolved in linguistic processing. However, recent findings indicate that these undersweep fixations influence skilled adult readers’ subsequent reading pass across the line and provide a preview of line-initial words. The current research examined these effects in children. First, a children's reading corpus analysis revealed that words receiving an undersweep fixation were more likely skipped and received shorter gaze durations during a subsequent pass. Second, a novel eye movement experiment that directly compared adults’ and children's eye movements indicated that, during an undersweep fixation, readers very briefly allocate their attention to the fixated word—as indicated by inhibition of return effects during a subsequent pass—prior to deploying attention toward the line-initial word. We argue that prior to the redeployment of attention, readers extract information at the point of fixation that facilitates later encoding and saccade targeting. Given similar patterns of results for adults and children, we conclude that the mechanisms controlling for oculomotor coordination and attention necessary for reading across line boundaries are established from a very early point in reading development.
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Undersweep fixations during reading in adults and children.
Authors: Parker, A.J., Kirkby, J.A. and Slattery, T.J.
Journal: J Exp Child Psychol
Volume: 192
Pages: 104788
eISSN: 1096-0457
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104788
Abstract:Return sweeps take a reader's fixation from the end of one line to the start of the next. Return sweeps frequently undershoot their target and are followed by a corrective saccade toward the left margin. The pauses prior to corrective saccades are typically considered to be uninvolved in linguistic processing. However, recent findings indicate that these undersweep fixations influence skilled adult readers' subsequent reading pass across the line and provide preview of line-initial words. The current research examined these effects in children. First, a children's reading corpus analysis revealed that words receiving an undersweep fixation were more likely skipped and received shorter gaze durations during a subsequent pass. Second, a novel eye movement experiment that directly compared adults' and children's eye movements indicated that, during an undersweep fixation, readers very briefly allocate their attention to the fixated word-as indicated by inhibition of return effects during a subsequent pass-prior to deploying attention toward the line-initial word. We argue that prior to the redeployment of attention, readers extract information at the point of fixation that facilitates later encoding and saccade targeting. Given similar patterns of results for adults and children, we conclude that the mechanisms controlling for oculomotor coordination and attention necessary for reading across line boundaries are established from a very early point in reading development.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33155/
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Undersweep fixations during reading in adults and children
Authors: Parker, A.J., Kirkby, J.A. and Slattery, T.J.
Journal: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume: 192
eISSN: 1096-0457
ISSN: 0022-0965
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104788
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33155/
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Undersweep-fixations during reading in adults and children.
Authors: Parker, A., Slattery, T. and Kirkby, J.
Journal: Journal of experimental child psychology
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0022-0965
Abstract:Return-sweeps take a reader’s fixation from the end of one line to the start of the next. Return-sweeps frequently undershoot their target and are followed by a corrective saccade towards the left margin. The pauses prior to correctives saccades are typically considered to be uninvolved in linguistic processing. However, recent findings indicate that these undersweep-fixations influence skilled adult reader’s subsequent reading pass across the line and provide preview of line-initial words. This research examined these effects in children. First, a children’s reading corpus analysis revealed that words receiving an undersweep-fixation were more likely skipped and received shorter gaze durations during a subsequent pass. Second, a novel eye movement experiment which directly compared adults’ and children’s eye movements indicated that, during an undersweep-fixation, readers very briefly allocate their attention to the fixated word—as indicated by inhibition of return effects during a subsequent pass—prior to deploying attention towards the line-initial word. We argue that, prior to the redeployment of attention, readers extract information at the point of fixation that facilitates later encoding and saccade targeting. Given similar patterns of results for adults and children, we conclude that the mechanisms controlling for oculomotor coordination and attention necessary for reading across line boundaries are established from a very early point in reading development.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33155/
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Undersweep fixations during reading in adults and children.
Authors: Parker, A.J., Kirkby, J.A. and Slattery, T.J.
Journal: Journal of experimental child psychology
Volume: 192
Pages: 104788
eISSN: 1096-0457
ISSN: 0022-0965
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104788
Abstract:Return sweeps take a reader's fixation from the end of one line to the start of the next. Return sweeps frequently undershoot their target and are followed by a corrective saccade toward the left margin. The pauses prior to corrective saccades are typically considered to be uninvolved in linguistic processing. However, recent findings indicate that these undersweep fixations influence skilled adult readers' subsequent reading pass across the line and provide preview of line-initial words. The current research examined these effects in children. First, a children's reading corpus analysis revealed that words receiving an undersweep fixation were more likely skipped and received shorter gaze durations during a subsequent pass. Second, a novel eye movement experiment that directly compared adults' and children's eye movements indicated that, during an undersweep fixation, readers very briefly allocate their attention to the fixated word-as indicated by inhibition of return effects during a subsequent pass-prior to deploying attention toward the line-initial word. We argue that prior to the redeployment of attention, readers extract information at the point of fixation that facilitates later encoding and saccade targeting. Given similar patterns of results for adults and children, we conclude that the mechanisms controlling for oculomotor coordination and attention necessary for reading across line boundaries are established from a very early point in reading development.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33155/
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Undersweep-fixations during reading in adults and children.
Authors: Parker, A., Slattery, T. and Kirkby, J.A.
Journal: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume: 192
Issue: April
ISSN: 0022-0965
Abstract:Return-sweeps take a reader’s fixation from the end of one line to the start of the next. Return-sweeps frequently undershoot their target and are followed by a corrective saccade towards the left margin. The pauses prior to correctives saccades are typically considered to be uninvolved in linguistic processing. However, recent findings indicate that these undersweep-fixations influence skilled adult reader’s subsequent reading pass across the line and provide preview of line-initial words. This research examined these effects in children. First, a children’s reading corpus analysis revealed that words receiving an undersweep-fixation were more likely skipped and received shorter gaze durations during a subsequent pass. Second, a novel eye movement experiment which directly compared adults’ and children’s eye movements indicated that, during an undersweep-fixation, readers very briefly allocate their attention to the fixated word—as indicated by inhibition of return effects during a subsequent pass—prior to deploying attention towards the line-initial word. We argue that, prior to the redeployment of attention, readers extract information at the point of fixation that facilitates later encoding and saccade targeting. Given similar patterns of results for adults and children, we conclude that the mechanisms controlling for oculomotor coordination and attention necessary for reading across line boundaries are established from a very early point in reading development.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33155/
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