title: CarPrice versus CarpRice: Word boundary ambiguity influences saccade target selection during the reading of Chinese sentences.
abstract: As a contribution to a theoretical debate about the degree of high-level influences on saccade targeting during sentence reading, we investigated eye movements during the reading of structurally ambiguous Chinese character strings and examined whether parafoveal word segmentation could influence saccade-target selection. As expected, ambiguous strings took longer to process. More critically there were theoretically relevant interactions between ambiguity and launch site when first-fixation location and saccade amplitude served as dependent variables: Ambiguous strings in the parafovea triggered longer saccades and more rightward fixations for close launch sites than unambiguous ones; the reverse result was obtained for far launch sites. These crossover interactions indicate that parafoveal word segmentation influences saccade generation in Chinese and provide support of the hypothesis that high-level information can be involved in the decision about where to fixate next. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Reinhold
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0180-8488
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kliegl
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D053483:Eye Movement Measurements; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011932:Reading; D012438:Saccades