ORCID Profile
0000-0001-9630-8410
Current Organisation
University of Southampton
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Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1037/A0037090
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 03-2019
DOI: 10.1037/XLM0000598
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-06-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 09-2017
DOI: 10.1037/XHP0000425
Abstract: We examined the effect of in idual differences in written language proficiency on unspaced text reading in a large s le of skilled adult readers who were assessed on reading comprehension and spelling ability. Participants' eye movements were recorded as they read sentences containing a low or high frequency target word, presented with standard interword spacing, or in one of three unsegmented text conditions that either preserved or eliminated word boundary information. The average data replicated previous studies: unspaced text reading was associated with increased fixation durations, a higher number of fixations, more regressions, reduced saccade length, and an inflation of the word frequency effect. The in idual differences results provided insight into the mechanisms contributing to these effects. Higher reading ability was associated with greater overall reading speed and fluency in all conditions. In contrast, spelling ability selectively modulated the effect of interword spacing with poorer spelling ability predicting greater difficulty across the majority of sentence- and word-level measures. These results suggest that high quality lexical representations allowed better spellers to extract lexical units from unfamiliar text forms, inoculating them against the disruptive effects of being deprived of spacing information. (PsycINFO Database Record
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.3.520
Abstract: R. Kliegl, A. Nuthmann, and R. Engbert reported an impressive set of data analyses dealing with the influence of the prior, present, and next word on the duration of the current eye fixation during reading. They argued that outcomes of their regression analyses indicate that lexical processing is distributed across a number of words during reading. The authors of this comment question their conclusions and address 4 different issues: (a) whether there is evidence for distributed lexical processing, (b) whether so-called parafoveal-on-foveal effects are widespread, (c) the role of correlational analyses in reading research, and (d) problems in their analyses because they use only cases in which words are fixated exactly once.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1037/A0030910
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-03-2019
DOI: 10.3758/S13423-019-01590-0
Abstract: Fitzsimmons and Drieghe (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 736-741, 2011) showed that a monosyllabic word was skipped more often than a disyllabic word during reading. This finding was interpreted as evidence that syllabic information was extracted from the parafovea early enough to influence word skipping. In the present, large-scale replication of this study, in which we additionally measured the reading, vocabulary, and spelling abilities of the participants, the effect of number of syllables on word skipping was not significant. Moreover, a Bayesian analysis indicated strong evidence for the absence of the effect. The in idual differences analyses replicate previous observations showing that spelling ability uniquely predicts word skipping (but not fixation times) because better spellers skip more often. The results indicate that high-quality lexical representations allow the system to reach an advanced stage in the word-recognition process of the parafoveal word early enough to influence the decision of whether or not to skip the word, but this decision is not influenced by number of syllables.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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