title: Parafoveal preview during reading: effects of sentence position.
abstract: Two experiments examined parafoveal preview for words located in the middle of sentences and at sentence boundaries. Parafoveal processing was shown to occur for words at sentence-initial, mid-sentence, and sentence-final positions. Both Experiments 1 and 2 showed reduced effects of preview on regressions out for sentence-initial words. In addition, Experiment 2 showed reduced preview effects on first-pass reading times for sentence-initial words. These effects of sentence position on preview could result from either reduced parafoveal processing for sentence-initial words or other processes specific to word reading at sentence boundaries. In addition to the effects of preview, the experiments also demonstrate variability in the effects of sentence wrap-up on different reading measures, indicating that the presence and time course of wrap-up effects may be modulated by text-specific factors. We also report simulations of Experiment 2 using version 10 of E-Z Reader (Reichle, Warren, & McConnell, 2009), designed to explore the possible mechanisms underlying parafoveal preview at sentence boundaries.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK. s.j.white@le.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sarah J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Tessa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Warren
authors.forename: Erik D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Reichle
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D032882:Comprehension; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005584:Fovea Centralis; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D012016:Reference Values; D012438:Saccades; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014794:Visual Fields; D014796:Visual Perception