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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Current eye-movement models primarily focus on single-line reading.
  • Return sweeps are crucial for multiline text comprehension, affecting ~20% of reading fixations.
  • Oculomotor errors, like undershooting, are common during return sweeps.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the implications of undersweep-fixations during return sweeps.
  • To analyze the role of undersweep-fixations in lexical processing.
  • To refine models of eye movements during multiline reading.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of two existing eye-movement datasets.
  • Examination of fixation patterns during return sweeps.
  • Investigating the relationship between undersweep-fixations and corrective saccades.

Main Results:

  • Undersweep-fixations occur before corrective saccades in return sweeps.
  • These fixations happen on words ahead of the intended target.
  • The attentional target is outside the parafovea during the preceding fixation, preventing preprocessing.

Conclusions:

  • Undersweep-fixations provide critical data for understanding serial lexical processing.
  • These findings challenge existing models by highlighting processing during unexpected fixations.
  • Further research on return sweeps can enhance models of reading eye movements.