Reading between eye saccades.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Skilled adult readers, in contrast to beginners, show no or little increase in reading latencies as a function of the number of letters in words up to seven letters. The information extraction strategy underlying such efficiency in word identification is still largely unknown, and methods that allow tracking of the letter information extraction through time between eye saccades are needed to fully address this question.

Methodology/principal findings

The present study examined the use of letter information during reading, by means of the Bubbles technique. Ten participants each read 5,000 five-letter French words sampled in space-time within a 200 ms window. On the temporal dimension, our results show that two moments are especially important during the informatio

SUBMITTER: Blais C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2714180 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature