Coming Up Next: The Extent of the Perceptual Window in Comic Reading.

ABSTRACT: Recent models of sequential narratives suggest that readers form predictions about upcoming panels as they read. However, previous work has considered these predictions only in terms of currently viewed information. In the current studies, we investigate to what extent readers are using information from un-fixated panels in comic stories. Using the moving-window paradigm, we studied whether reading behavior was disrupted when upcoming panels were unavailable to the reader, in short comic strips (Experiment 1) and multipage comics (Experiment 2). Both studies showed the greatest disruption to reading when all peripheral information was removed, but such changes persisted when only partial peripheral information was available. The results indicate that readers are making use of information f

SUBMITTER: Kirtley C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12631053 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature