title: Saccade target selection in Chinese reading.
abstract: In Chinese reading, there are no spaces to mark the word boundaries, so Chinese readers cannot target their saccades to the center of a word. In this study, we investigated how Chinese readers decide where to move their eyes during reading. To do so, we introduced a variant of the boundary paradigm in which only the target stimulus remained on the screen, displayed at the saccade landing site, after the participant's eyes crossed an invisible boundary. We found that when the saccade target was a word, reaction times in a lexical decision task were shorter when the saccade landing position was closer to the end of that word. These results are consistent with the predictions of a processing-based strategy to determine where to move the eyes. Specifically, this hypothesis assumes that Chinese readers estimate how much information is processed in parafoveal vision and saccade to a location that will carry novel information.
authors: Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, 100101, lixs@psych.ac.cn.
authors: Xingshan
authors: X
authors: Li
authors: Pingping
authors: P
authors: Liu
authors: Keith
authors: K
authors: Rayner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002681:China; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D012438:Saccades; D012660:Semantics; D055815:Young Adult