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Boston, Marisa Ferrara; Hale, John T.; Vasishth, Shravan; Kliegl, Reinhold – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Eye fixation durations during normal reading correlate with processing difficulty, but the specific cognitive mechanisms reflected in these measures are not well understood. This study finds support in German readers' eye fixations for two distinct difficulty metrics: surprisal, which reflects the change in probabilities across syntactic analyses…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Language Processing, Short Term Memory