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Saccade target selection in Chinese reading.

Xingshan Li¹, Pingping Liu, Keith Rayner

¹Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, 100101, lixs@psych.ac.cn.

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Chinese readers strategically adjust eye movements during reading, landing saccades closer to word endings. This processing-based strategy optimizes information intake from parafoveal vision for efficient word recognition.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive psychology
Psycholinguistics
Reading science

Background:

Chinese reading lacks inter-word spaces, posing challenges for word boundary identification.
Understanding eye movement control in Chinese reading is crucial for explaining reading mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how Chinese readers determine saccade landing sites during reading.
To test the processing-based strategy for eye movement control in Chinese readers.

Main Methods:

A modified boundary paradigm was employed, presenting the target stimulus at the saccade landing site.
Participants performed a lexical decision task on words presented after crossing an invisible boundary.

Main Results:

Lexical decision reaction times were faster when saccade landing positions were nearer to the end of the target word.
This finding supports the hypothesis that landing position is influenced by processing demands.

Conclusions:

Chinese readers utilize a processing-based strategy to guide saccades, aiming for locations with novel information.
Parafoveal processing and information estimation play key roles in Chinese reading eye movement control.