Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2003 - Volume 26, Issue 04  


Short Communication

Psycholinguistic processes affect fixation durations and orthographic information affects fixation locations: Can E-Z Reader cope?

Simon P. Liversedge a1 and Sarah J. White a1
a1 Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom s.p.liversedge@durham.ac.uk s.j.white@durham.ac.uk http://psychology.dur.ac.uk/staff/details.asp?name5LIVERSEDGE www.dur.ac.uk/s.j.white/

Abstract

This commentary focuses on two aspects of eye movement behaviour that E-Z Reader 7 currently makes no attempt to explain: the influence of higher order psycholinguistic processes on fixation durations, and orthographic influences on initial and refixation locations on words. From our understanding of the current version of the model, it is not clear how it may be readily modified to account for existing empirical data.