Supplementary materials for: A cross-linguistic study of spatial parameters of eye-movement control during reading
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Kuperman, Victor
Abstract / Description
Supplementary materials for: Kuperman, V. (2022). A cross-linguistic study of spatial parameters of eye-movement control during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(11), 1213–1228. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001038
Current theories of oculomotor control in reading differ in their accounts of saccadic targeting. Some argue that targets for saccades are solely selected on the basis of the rapidly changing sensory input, whereas others additionally allow for the reader’s experiential biases to modulate saccade lengths. We investigated this debate using cross-linguistic data on text reading in 12 alphabetic languages from the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO) database. These languages vary widely in their word length distributions, suggesting that expected word lengths and corresponding biases toward optimal saccade lengths may also vary across readers of these languages. Regression analyses confirmed that readers of languages with longer words (e.g., Finnish) rather than shorter words (e.g., Hebrew) landed further into the word, even when sensory aspects relevant for saccade planning (e.g., word lengths) were controlled for. In the prevalent saccade type, a one-letter difference in mean word length between languages came with one-quarter-letter of a difference in initial landing position and saccade length, and a decrease in 1.5% in refixation probability. Interpreted in the Bayesian framework, the findings highlight the relevance of global language-wide settings for accounts of spatial oculomotor control and lead to testable predictions for further cross-linguistic research.
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eye movements reading cross-linguisticPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2022-02-16
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PsychArchives
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Kuperman, Victor
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Date of first publication2022-02-16
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Abstract / DescriptionSupplementary materials for: Kuperman, V. (2022). A cross-linguistic study of spatial parameters of eye-movement control during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(11), 1213–1228. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001038en
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Abstract / DescriptionCurrent theories of oculomotor control in reading differ in their accounts of saccadic targeting. Some argue that targets for saccades are solely selected on the basis of the rapidly changing sensory input, whereas others additionally allow for the reader’s experiential biases to modulate saccade lengths. We investigated this debate using cross-linguistic data on text reading in 12 alphabetic languages from the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO) database. These languages vary widely in their word length distributions, suggesting that expected word lengths and corresponding biases toward optimal saccade lengths may also vary across readers of these languages. Regression analyses confirmed that readers of languages with longer words (e.g., Finnish) rather than shorter words (e.g., Hebrew) landed further into the word, even when sensory aspects relevant for saccade planning (e.g., word lengths) were controlled for. In the prevalent saccade type, a one-letter difference in mean word length between languages came with one-quarter-letter of a difference in initial landing position and saccade length, and a decrease in 1.5% in refixation probability. Interpreted in the Bayesian framework, the findings highlight the relevance of global language-wide settings for accounts of spatial oculomotor control and lead to testable predictions for further cross-linguistic research.en
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/4809
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5403
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychArchives
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Is referenced byhttps://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001038
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Keyword(s)eye movementsen
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Keyword(s)readingen
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Keyword(s)cross-linguisticen
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleSupplementary materials for: A cross-linguistic study of spatial parameters of eye-movement control during readingen
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