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Eye movements and non-canonical reading: comments on Kennedy and Pynte (2008)

Eye movements and non-canonical reading: comments on Kennedy and Pynte (2008)
Eye movements and non-canonical reading: comments on Kennedy and Pynte (2008)
Kennedy and Pynte [Kennedy, A., & Pynte, J. (2008). The consequences of violations to reading order: An eye movement analysis. Vision Research, 48, 2309–2320] presented data that they suggested pose problems for models of eye movement control in reading in which words are encoded serially. They focus on situations in which pairs of words are fixated out of order (i.e., the first word is skipped and the second fixated prior to a regression back to the first word). We strongly disagree with their claims and contest their arguments. We argue that their data set was obtained selectively and the events they believe are problematic do not occur frequently during reading. Furthermore, we do not consider that Kennedy and Pynte’s arguments pose serious difficulties for serial models of reading such as E-Z Reader
0042-6989
2232-2236
Rayner, Keith
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Pollatsek, Alexander
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Liversedge, Simon P.
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Reichle, Erik D.
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Rayner, Keith
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Pollatsek, Alexander
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Liversedge, Simon P.
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Reichle, Erik D.
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Rayner, Keith, Pollatsek, Alexander, Liversedge, Simon P. and Reichle, Erik D. (2009) Eye movements and non-canonical reading: comments on Kennedy and Pynte (2008). Vision Research, 49 (17), 2232-2236. (doi:10.1016/j.visres.2008.10.013). (PMID:19000705)

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Kennedy and Pynte [Kennedy, A., & Pynte, J. (2008). The consequences of violations to reading order: An eye movement analysis. Vision Research, 48, 2309–2320] presented data that they suggested pose problems for models of eye movement control in reading in which words are encoded serially. They focus on situations in which pairs of words are fixated out of order (i.e., the first word is skipped and the second fixated prior to a regression back to the first word). We strongly disagree with their claims and contest their arguments. We argue that their data set was obtained selectively and the events they believe are problematic do not occur frequently during reading. Furthermore, we do not consider that Kennedy and Pynte’s arguments pose serious difficulties for serial models of reading such as E-Z Reader

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Published date: 28 August 2009
Organisations: Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 145749
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/145749
ISSN: 0042-6989
PURE UUID: 736d2a48-15ab-4b68-b3fd-ddaa701adbbb

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Date deposited: 19 Apr 2010 13:53
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 00:52

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Author: Keith Rayner
Author: Alexander Pollatsek
Author: Simon P. Liversedge
Author: Erik D. Reichle

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