Journal article
Solving the chicken-and-egg problem of letter detection and fixation duration in reading
Abstract
When asked to detect target letters while reading a text, participants miss more letters in frequent function words than in less frequent content words. According to the truncation assumption that characterizes most models of this effect, misses occur when word-processing time is shorter than letter-processing time. Fixation durations for detections and omissions were compared with fixation durations from a baseline condition when participants …
Authors
Roy-Charland A; Saint-Aubin J; Lawrence MA; Klein RM
Journal
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 1553–1562
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
October 2009
DOI
10.3758/app.71.7.1553
ISSN
1943-3921