title: A further examination of the lexical-processing stages hypothesized by the E-Z Reader model.
abstract: Participants' eye movements were monitored while they read sentences in which high- and low-frequency target words were presented normally (i.e., the normal condition) or with either reduced stimulus quality (i.e., the faint condition) or alternating lower- and uppercase letters (i.e., the case-alternated condition). Both the stimulus quality and case alternation manipulations interacted with word frequency for the gaze duration measure, such that the magnitude of word frequency effects was increased relative to the normal condition. However, stimulus quality (but not case alternation) interacted with word frequency for the early fixation time measures (i.e., first fixation, single fixation), whereas case alternation (but not stimulus quality) interacted with word frequency for the later fixation time measures (i.e., total time, go-past time). We interpret this pattern of results as evidence that stimulus quality influences an earlier stage of lexical processing than does case alternation, and we discuss the implications of our results for models of eye movement control during reading.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road N., RM 2037B, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6. heather.sheridan@utoronto.ca
authors: Heather
authors: H
authors: Sheridan
authors: Eyal M
authors: EM
authors: Reingold
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D064926:Neurophysiological Monitoring; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary