An eye-movement exploration into return-sweep targeting during reading.

ABSTRACT: Return-sweeps are an essential eye-movement that takes the readers' eyes from the end of one line of text to the start of the next. While return-sweeps are common during normal reading, the eye-movement literature is dominated by single-line reading studies where no return-sweeps are needed. The present experiment was designed to explore what readers are targeting with their return-sweeps. Participants read two short stories by Frank L. Baum while their eye-movements were being recorded. In one story, every line-initial word was highlighted by formatting it in bold, while the other story was presented normally (i.e., without any bolding). The bolding manipulation significantly reduced oculomotor error associated with return-sweeps, as these saccades landed closer to the left margin and wer

SUBMITTER: Slattery TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6647890 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature