Perceptual Span in Oral Reading: The Case of Chinese
Autor: | Jinger Pan, Jochen Laubrock, Ming Yan |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Visual perception
Vision span Computer science 05 social sciences Eye movement 050105 experimental psychology Linguistics Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Writing system Reading aloud Fixation (visual) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology (miscellaneous) 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Normal reading Silent reading |
Zdroj: | Scientific Studies of Reading. 21:254-263 |
ISSN: | 1532-799X 1088-8438 |
Popis: | The present study explores the perceptual span, that is, the physical extent of the area from which useful visual information is obtained during a single fixation, during oral reading of Chinese sentences. Characters outside a window of legible text were replaced by visually similar characters. Results show that the influence of window size on the perceptual span was consistent across different fixation and oculomotor measures. To maintain normal reading behavior when reading aloud, it was necessary to have information provided from three characters to the right of the fixation. Together with findings from previous research, our findings suggest that the physical size of the perceptual span is smaller when reading aloud than in silent reading. This is in agreement with previous studies in English, suggesting that the mechanisms causing the reduced span in oral reading have a common base that generalizes across languages and writing systems. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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