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Eskenazi, Michael A.; Folk, Jocelyn R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
We investigated whether high-skill readers skip more words than low-skill readers as a result of parafoveal processing differences based on reading skill. We manipulated foveal load and word length, two variables that strongly influence word skipping, and measured reading skill using the Nelson-Denny Reading Test. We found that reading skill did…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Eye Movements, Individual Differences, Reading Tests
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Love, Jessica; McKoon, Gail – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Research on shallow processing suggests that readers sometimes encode only a superficial representation of a text and fail to make use of all available information. Greene, McKoon, and Ratcliff (1992) extended this work to pronouns, finding evidence that readers sometimes fail to automatically identify referents even when these are unambiguous. In…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Form Classes (Languages), Coding