title: Inhibition of saccade return in reading.
abstract: We examined the characteristics of readers' eye movements as they read sentences or short passages of text and compared the durations of eye fixations preceding two types of saccades: (a) saccades to words that were fixated on the prior fixation (return saccades) and (b) saccades in which the eyes moved about the same distance but did not land on a word fixated on the prior fixation (non-return saccades). Consistent with research from much simpler attention or oculomotor tasks, we found what could be considered an inhibition of return effect: fixations preceding return saccades were longer than those preceding non-return saccades.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. rayner@psych.umass.edu
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rayner
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Juhasz
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ashby
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clifton
mesh_terms: D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011932:Reading; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*