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Perceiving words during reading: Lack of facilitation from prior peripheral exposure

1982; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 32; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3758/bf03206231

1532-5962

George W. McConkie, David Zola, Harry E. Blanchard, Gary S. Wolverton,

Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

As their eye movements were being monitored, college students read short texts displayed on a cathode-ray tube. As they read, the contents of certain word locations changed from fixation to fixation, alternating between two words differing in two letters. This manipulation had no effect on reading unless the subjects happened to regress to or reread the word later. The results indicated that these words, which were low in contextual constraint, were read only when directly fixated, and that there was no facilitation from prior peripherally obtained information about the words.