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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception
  • Reading Science

Background:

  • Unspaced text in Indo-European languages incurs reading costs in word identification and eye movement guidance.
  • Word spacing can limit parafoveal processing due to words falling outside high-acuity central vision.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if a visual cue, alternating word colors, can facilitate word segmentation without compromising visual acuity.
  • To assess the reading cost of unspaced text with alternating word colors compared to standard spaced text.

Main Methods:

  • An experiment was conducted presenting participants with unspaced text where alternating words were printed in different colors.
  • Reading performance was compared between unspaced alternating color sentences and standard spaced sentences.

Main Results:

  • A small reading cost was observed for unspaced alternating color sentences compared to spaced sentences.
  • The results indicate that alternating colors effectively aid word segmentation.

Conclusions:

  • Alternating word colors can be a useful visual cue for segmenting words in spaced orthographies.
  • This method demonstrates a potential strategy to mitigate reading difficulties associated with unspaced text.