TY - JOUR
T1 - Number-of-Features Effects During Reading
T2 - Evidence From Eye Movements
AU - Cook, Anne E.
AU - Colbert-Getz, Jorie
AU - Kircher, John C.
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - Researchers have demonstrated that words with high numbers of features (NOF) are recognized more quickly than words with low NOF. One difficulty in testing theories of word recognition with paradigms that present words in isolation, however, is that these paradigms can produce task demands not present in naturalistic reading situations. Extending previous research on this topic, we embedded high and low NOF words in neutral sentences that participants read as their eye movements were monitored. We investigated how NOF and four other variables known to affect word recognition (frequency, age of acquisition, familiarity, and length) influenced word reading time. This is the first experiment to demonstrate NOF effects on eye fixations during reading.
AB - Researchers have demonstrated that words with high numbers of features (NOF) are recognized more quickly than words with low NOF. One difficulty in testing theories of word recognition with paradigms that present words in isolation, however, is that these paradigms can produce task demands not present in naturalistic reading situations. Extending previous research on this topic, we embedded high and low NOF words in neutral sentences that participants read as their eye movements were monitored. We investigated how NOF and four other variables known to affect word recognition (frequency, age of acquisition, familiarity, and length) influenced word reading time. This is the first experiment to demonstrate NOF effects on eye fixations during reading.
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U2 - 10.1080/0163853X.2013.763746
DO - 10.1080/0163853X.2013.763746
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875822817
SN - 0163-853X
VL - 50
SP - 210
EP - 225
JO - Discourse Processes
JF - Discourse Processes
IS - 3
ER -