Abstract

The proposed four-year research continues studies from the applicants' laboratory directed towards developing a model of the reading process to explain skilled reading, the acquisition of reading skill, and failure to read.
The specific aims i n the proposal concern the types of codes (visual, orthographic, phonological, morphemic, and semantic) used in reading with foveal and parafoveal vision. The methodology involves using eye movements in reading or reading-related tasks to study two general questions. The first question concerns how different codes are deployed in accessing the meaning of words. Three questions will be considered: 1) the way phonological information is extracted in the parafovea; 2) neighbor effects concern how word encoding is affected by the properties of closely related words; 3) morphemic coding will be studied with sound coding in other languages in which the relation between orthography and phonology is different from that in English. The second question concerns how attention is used during eye fixation, specifically, how covert modulation of incoming information occurs on a given eye movement fixation and how the eyes are driven to new locations during reading.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award (R37)
Project #
5R37HD026765-09
Application #
2695990
Study Section
Human Development and Aging Subcommittee 3 (HUD)
Program Officer
Lyon, Reid G
Project Start
1990-05-01
Project End
2002-04-30
Budget Start
1998-05-01
Budget End
1999-04-30
Support Year
9
Fiscal Year
1998
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
153223151
City
Amherst
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
01003

  Publications

Angele, Bernhard; Slattery, Timothy J; Rayner, Keith (2016) Two stages of parafoveal processing during reading: Evidence from a display change detection task. Psychon Bull Rev 23:1241-9
Rayner, Keith; Schotter, Elizabeth R; Drieghe, Denis (2014) Lack of semantic parafoveal preview benefit in reading revisited. Psychon Bull Rev 21:1067-72
Blythe, Hazel I; Johnson, Rebecca L; Liversedge, Simon P et al. (2014) Reading transposed text: effects of transposed letter distance and consonant-vowel status on eye movements. Atten Percept Psychophys 76:2424-40
Angele, Bernhard; Laishley, Abby E; Rayner, Keith et al. (2014) The effect of high- and low-frequency previews and sentential fit on word skipping during reading. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 40:1181-203
Rayner, Keith; Yang, Jinmian; Schuett, Susanne et al. (2014) The effect of foveal and parafoveal masks on the eye movements of older and younger readers. Psychol Aging 29:205-12
Frisson, Steven; Bélanger, Nathalie N; Rayner, Keith (2014) Phonological and orthographic overlap effects in fast and masked priming. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 67:1742-67
Angele, Bernhard; Tran, Randy; Rayner, Keith (2013) Parafoveal-foveal overlap can facilitate ongoing word identification during reading: evidence from eye movements. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 39:526-38
Rayner, Keith; Yang, Jinmian; Schuett, Susanne et al. (2013) Eye movements of older and younger readers when reading unspaced text. Exp Psychol 60:354-61
Reichle, Erik D; Liversedge, Simon P; Drieghe, Denis et al. (2013) Using E-Z Reader to examine the concurrent development of eye-movement control and reading skill. Dev Rev 33:110-149
Schotter, Elizabeth R; Ferreira, Victor S; Rayner, Keith (2013) Parallel object activation and attentional gating of information: evidence from eye movements in the multiple object naming paradigm. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 39:365-74

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