Readers can identify the meanings of words without looking at them: Evidence from regressive eye movements
- 11 September 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 26 (5), 1697-1704
- https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01662-1
Abstract
Previewing words prior to fixating them leads to faster reading, but does it lead to word identification (i.e., semantic encoding)? We tested this with a gaze-contingent display change study and a subsequent plausibility manipulation. Both the preview and the target words were plausible when encountered, and we manipulated the end of the sentence so that the different preview was rendered implausible (in critical sentences) or remained plausible (in neutral sentences). Regressive saccades from the end of the sentence increased when the preview was rendered implausible compared to when it was plausible, especially when the preview was high frequency. These data add to a growing body of research suggesting that linguistic information can be obtained during preview, to the point where word meaning is accessed. In addition, these findings suggest that the meaning of the fixated target does not always override the semantic information obtained during preview.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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