Tracking the mind during reading via eye movements: comments on Kliegl, Nuthmann, and Engbert (2006).
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.
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Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, US. rayner@psych.umass.edu
Pollatsek
Alexander
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Drieghe
Denis
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Slattery
Timothy J
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Reichle
Erik D
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