PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Word Lists By Frequency, Visual Acuity, Saccade

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2700
• Professor: Chris Herdman

Document Summary

Note: we will focus on the process in reading. This is the process of translating symbols into meaning. Eye movement (gaze: fixation for about 200-250 ms (80% content words, usually skip fn words like the , saccade ~20-40ms (7-9 letter jumps) Saccade suppression i. e. you can"t see anything when your eyes are moving, we can"t process info. Visual acuity is best at the fovea area. Evidence 2 skipping words (carpenter and just, 1983: we tend to skip fn words like the , and not usually content words and you skip more words if it"s an easier text. People don"t notice: shows that very little of the next word is pre-processed. Evidence 4 fixation and reading skills: low skill: fixate more often, backtracking, longer fixation/word, they can also fixate on a word more than twice. Word recognition: encoding of words and activation of their corresponding orthographic, phonologic and semantic representation .