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Selection for fixation and selection for orthographic processing need not coincide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2004

Albrecht W. Inhoff  and
Kelly Shindler
Albrecht W. Inhoff*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY13902-6000
Kelly Shindler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY13902-6000
*
[email protected]
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Abstract:

The E-Z Reader model assumes that the parafoveal selection for fixation and the subsequent selection for attention allocation encompass the same spatially distinct letter cluster. Recent data suggest, however, that an individual letter sequence is selected for fixation and that more than one letter sequence can be selected for attention allocation (processing).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , August 2003 , pp. 489 - 490
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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Notes

1. The blank target space in the mismatched length condition was replaced with an uninformative letter in the matched length condition to reveal the identical sequence of useful and non-useful parafoveal letters in both conditions.

2. This does not consider potential inaccuracies due to oculomotor error.