Return-sweep saccades during reading in adults and children
Authors: Parker, A.J., Slattery, T.J. and Kirkby, J.A.
Journal: Vision Research
Volume: 155
Pages: 35-43
eISSN: 1878-5646
ISSN: 0042-6989
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.12.007
Abstract:During reading, eye movement patterns differ between children and adults. Children make more fixations that are longer in duration and make shorter saccades. Return-sweeps are saccadic eye movements that move a reader's fixation to a new line of text. Return-sweeps move fixation further than intra-line saccades and often undershoot their target. This necessitates a corrective saccade to bring fixation closer to the start of the line. There have been few empirical investigations of return-sweep saccades in adults, and even fewer in children. In the present study, we examined return-sweeps of 47 adults and 48 children who read identical multiline texts. We found that children launch their return-sweeps closer to the end of the line and target a position closer to the left margin. Therefore, children fixate more extreme positions on the screen when reading for comprehension. Furthermore, children required a corrective saccade following a return-sweep more often than adults. Analysis of the duration of the fixation preceding the corrective saccade indicated that children are as efficient as adults at responding to retinal feedback following a saccade. Rather than consider differences in adult's and children's return-sweep behaviour an artefact of oculomotor control, we believe that these differences represent adult's ability to utilise parafoveal processing to encode text at extreme positions.
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Return-sweep saccades during reading in adults and children.
Authors: Parker, A.J., Slattery, T.J. and Kirkby, J.A.
Journal: Vision Res
Volume: 155
Pages: 35-43
eISSN: 1878-5646
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.12.007
Abstract:During reading, eye movement patterns differ between children and adults. Children make more fixations that are longer in duration and make shorter saccades. Return-sweeps are saccadic eye movements that move a reader's fixation to a new line of text. Return-sweeps move fixation further than intra-line saccades and often undershoot their target. This necessitates a corrective saccade to bring fixation closer to the start of the line. There have been few empirical investigations of return-sweep saccades in adults, and even fewer in children. In the present study, we examined return-sweeps of 47 adults and 48 children who read identical multiline texts. We found that children launch their return-sweeps closer to the end of the line and target a position closer to the left margin. Therefore, children fixate more extreme positions on the screen when reading for comprehension. Furthermore, children required a corrective saccade following a return-sweep more often than adults. Analysis of the duration of the fixation preceding the corrective saccade indicated that children are as efficient as adults at responding to retinal feedback following a saccade. Rather than consider differences in adult's and children's return-sweep behaviour an artefact of oculomotor control, we believe that these differences represent adult's ability to utilise parafoveal processing to encode text at extreme positions.
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Return-sweep saccades during reading in adults and children
Authors: Parker, A.J., Slattery, T.J. and Kirkby, J.A.
Journal: VISION RESEARCH
Volume: 155
Pages: 35-43
eISSN: 1878-5646
ISSN: 0042-6989
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.12.007
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31639/
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Return-sweep saccades during reading in adults and children
Authors: Parker, A., Slattery, T. and Kirkby, J.
Journal: Vision research
Volume: 155
Pages: 35-43
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0042-6989
Abstract:During reading, eye movement patterns differ between children and adults. Children make more fixations that are longer in duration and make shorter saccades. Return-sweeps are saccadic eye movements that move a reader’s fixation to a new line of text. Return-sweeps move fixation further than intra-line saccades and often undershoot their target. This necessitates a corrective saccade to bring fixation closer to the start of the line. There have been few empirical investigations of return-sweep saccades in adults, and even fewer in children. In the present study, we examined return-sweeps of 47 adults and 48 children who read identical multiline texts. We found that children launch their return-sweeps closer to the end of the line and target a position closer to the left margin. Therefore, children fixate more extreme positions on the screen when reading for comprehension. Furthermore, children required a corrective saccade following a return-sweep more often than adults. Analysis of the duration of the fixation preceding the corrective saccade indicated that children are as efficient as adults at responding to retinal feedback following a saccade. Rather than consider differences in adult’s and children’s return-sweep behaviour an artefact of oculomotor control, we believe that these differences represent adult’s ability to utilise parafoveal processing to encode text at extreme positions.
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Return-sweep saccades during reading in adults and children.
Authors: Parker, A.J., Slattery, T.J. and Kirkby, J.A.
Journal: Vision research
Volume: 155
Pages: 35-43
eISSN: 1878-5646
ISSN: 0042-6989
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.12.007
Abstract:During reading, eye movement patterns differ between children and adults. Children make more fixations that are longer in duration and make shorter saccades. Return-sweeps are saccadic eye movements that move a reader's fixation to a new line of text. Return-sweeps move fixation further than intra-line saccades and often undershoot their target. This necessitates a corrective saccade to bring fixation closer to the start of the line. There have been few empirical investigations of return-sweep saccades in adults, and even fewer in children. In the present study, we examined return-sweeps of 47 adults and 48 children who read identical multiline texts. We found that children launch their return-sweeps closer to the end of the line and target a position closer to the left margin. Therefore, children fixate more extreme positions on the screen when reading for comprehension. Furthermore, children required a corrective saccade following a return-sweep more often than adults. Analysis of the duration of the fixation preceding the corrective saccade indicated that children are as efficient as adults at responding to retinal feedback following a saccade. Rather than consider differences in adult's and children's return-sweep behaviour an artefact of oculomotor control, we believe that these differences represent adult's ability to utilise parafoveal processing to encode text at extreme positions.
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Return-sweep saccades during reading in adults and children
Authors: Parker, A., Slattery, T. and Kirkby, J.A.
Journal: Vision Research
Volume: 155
Issue: February
Pages: 35-43
ISSN: 0042-6989
Abstract:During reading, eye movement patterns differ between children and adults. Children make more fixations that are longer in duration and make shorter saccades. Return-sweeps are saccadic eye movements that move a reader’s fixation to a new line of text. Return-sweeps move fixation further than intra-line saccades and often undershoot their target. This necessitates a corrective saccade to bring fixation closer to the start of the line. There have been few empirical investigations of return-sweep saccades in adults, and even fewer in children. In the present study, we examined return-sweeps of 47 adults and 48 children who read identical multiline texts. We found that children launch their return-sweeps closer to the end of the line and target a position closer to the left margin. Therefore, children fixate more extreme positions on the screen when reading for comprehension. Furthermore, children required a corrective saccade following a return-sweep more often than adults. Analysis of the duration of the fixation preceding the corrective saccade indicated that children are as efficient as adults at responding to retinal feedback following a saccade. Rather than consider differences in adult’s and children’s return-sweep behaviour an artefact of oculomotor control, we believe that these differences represent adult’s ability to utilise parafoveal processing to encode text at extreme positions.
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