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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Spontaneous rereading involves regressive saccades for text reinspection.
  • Understanding how previously read text influences reading is crucial for cognitive models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of previously read text in sentence comprehension.
  • To examine the control of eye movements during spontaneous rereading.

Main Methods:

  • Gaze-contingent change technique used to manipulate text availability.
  • Experiments varied the masking of text to the left of the fixated word (beyond wordn and wordn-1).

Main Results:

  • Availability of the word immediately to the left (wordn-1) is vital for comprehension.
  • The visual format of parafoveal postview text influences regression triggering.
  • Meaningful text availability is important for eye movement control in complex sentences.

Conclusions:

  • Previously read text, particularly wordn-1, plays a significant role in reading comprehension.
  • Parafoveal visual information and meaningful text content guide eye movements during rereading.