Reading disappearing text: Why do children refixate words?



: Blythe HI, Haikio T, Bertam R, Liversedge SP, Hyona J

Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

: 2011

: Vision Research

: VISION RESEARCH

: VISION RES

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: 0042-6989

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2010.10.003


We compared Finnish adults' and children's eye movements on long (8-letter) and short (4-letter) target words embedded in sentences, presented either normally or as disappearing text. When reading disappearing text, where refixations did not provide new information, the 8- to 9-year-old children made fewer refixations but more regressions back to long words compared to when reading normal text. This difference was not observed in the adults or 10- to 11-year-old children. We conclude that the younger children required a second visual sample on the long words, and they adapted their eye movement behaviour when reading disappearing text accordingly. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.



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