EYE MOVEMENTS DURING READING OF REGULAR AND PHRASE-SEGMENTED TEXTS

EYE MOVEMENTS DURING READING OF REGULAR AND PHRASE-SEGMENTED TEXTS
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144
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9783639193572
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An experiment was conducted to examine eye movements during reading of regular and phrase- segmented texts. Participants read a set of either regularly formatted or phrase-segmented texts as eye movements were monitored. Phrase-segmented texts had variably larger spaces between algorithmically defined“phrases”, as controlled by the text formatting program, ReadSmart™. Each text was followed by comprehension questions. The effect of individual differences (high- vs. low-performance readers) and text formatting (regular vs. phrase- segmented) was studied by examination of readers’ eye movement patterns. It was hypothesized that high- and low-performance readers’ eye movements would differ for regular text reading in replication of previous research, and that low-performance readers’ eye movements for phrase-segmented texts would resemble those of high-performance readers in the same condition. Results revealed differences between high- and low-performance readers’ eye movements for...

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