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Ferguson, Heather J.; Jayes, Lewis T. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Previous research has established that readers' eye movements are sensitive to the difficulty with which a word is processed. One important factor that influences processing is the fit of a word within the wider context, including its plausibility. Here we explore the influence of plausibility in counterfactual language processing. Counterfactuals…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Processing, Context Effect, Native Speakers
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Paterson, Kevin B.; Jordan, Timothy R.; Kurtev, Stoyan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
It has been claimed that the recognition of words displayed in isolation is affected by the precise location at which they are fixated. However, this putative role for fixation location has yet to be reconciled with the finding from reading research that binocular fixations are often misaligned and, therefore, more than 1 location in a word is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Research, Word Recognition, Word Processing