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Warrington, Kayleigh L.; McGowan, Victoria A.; Paterson, Kevin B.; White, Sarah J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Reductions in stimulus quality may disrupt the reading performance of older adults more when compared with young adults because of sensory declines that begin early in middle age. However, few studies have investigated adult age differences in the effects of stimulus quality on reading, and none have examined how this affects lexical processing…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Word Frequency, Eye Movements
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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