Eye Movements and Information Processing during Reading
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Author(s): R. Radach, A. Kennedy and K. Rayner (Eds)
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 184169956X
Format: hardback
356pp
Price: £75.00
Review Date: 17 February 2004
Review: Eye movements provide a special opportunity to examine principles of human information processing in a well-structures visual environment, while a person engages in a natural cognitative task. At the same time, oculometer measurements can be used as a tool to develop and test psycholinguistics hypotheses on the processing of written language. This collection of articles addresses both issues. Looked at from the angle of visual information processing, a main theme is the role played by parafoveal information for different types and levels of processing and for oculometer control. This includes the effects of visual and linguistic word properties on the selection of words for fixation and the specification of saccade amplitudes. From a psychological perspective, the topics include several levels of language processing from orthography to pragmatic information in sentence reading.