A1 Journal article (refereed)
A co-registration investigation of inter-word spacing and parafoveal preview : Eye movements and fixation-related potentials (2019)


Degno, F., Loberg, O., Zang, C., Zang, M., Donnelly, N., & Liversedge, S. P. (2019). A co-registration investigation of inter-word spacing and parafoveal preview : Eye movements and fixation-related potentials. PLoS ONE, 14(12), Article e0225819. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225819


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All authors or editorsDegno, Federica; Loberg, Otto; Zang, Chuanli; Zang, Manman; Donnelly, Nick; Liversedge, Simon P.

Journal or seriesPLoS ONE

eISSN1932-6203

Publication year2019

Volume14

Issue number12

Article numbere0225819

PublisherPublic Library of Science

Publication countryUnited States

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225819

Research data linkhttps://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KJ7C3

Publication open accessOpenly available

Publication channel open accessOpen Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX)https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/67153


Abstract

Participants’ eye movements (EMs) and EEG signal were simultaneously recorded to examine foveal and parafoveal processing during sentence reading. All the words in the sentence were manipulated for inter-word spacing (intact spaces vs. spaces replaced by a random letter) and parafoveal preview (identical preview vs. random letter string preview). We observed disruption for unspaced text and invalid preview conditions in both EMs and fixation-related potentials (FRPs). Unspaced and invalid preview conditions received longer reading times than spaced and valid preview conditions. In addition, the FRP data showed that unspaced previews disrupted reading in earlier time windows of analysis, compared to string preview conditions. Moreover, the effect of parafoveal preview was greater for spaced relative to unspaced conditions, in both EMs and FRPs. These findings replicate well-established preview effects, provide novel insight into the neural correlates of reading with and without inter-word spacing and suggest that spatial selection precedes lexical processing.


Keywordsreadingtext comprehensioneye movementseye trackingEEG


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Reporting Year2019

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