Preview benefit and parafoveal-on-foveal effects from word n + 2.
Using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm with the boundary placed after word n, the experiment manipulated preview of word n + 2 for fixations on word n. There was no preview benefit for 1st-pass reading on word n + 2, replicating the results of K. Rayner, B. J. Juhasz, and S. J. Brown (2007), but there was a preview benefit on the 3-letter word n + 1, that is, after the boundary but before word n + 2. Additionally, both word n + 1 and word n + 2 exhibited parafoveal-on-foveal effects on word n. Thus, during a fixation on word n and given a short word n + 1, some information is extracted from word n + 2, supporting the hypothesis of distributed processing in the perceptual span.
Kliegl
Reinhold
R
Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. kliegl@rz.uni-potsdam.de
Risse
Sarah
S
Laubrock
Jochen
J
D005584:Fovea Centralis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D014796:Visual Perception; D014825:Vocabulary