PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Parafovea, Dyslexia, Eye Movement
Document Summary
Swift: parallel allocation of attention (some) cognitive aspects of reading. How children learn to read alphabetic script. Models of lexical access: single route model, dual route model, dyslexia. Possessive pronouns: problematic: possessive pronouns never use apostrophes: my, your, her, his, its, our, your, their, even when they are on their own: that is mine/yours/hers/his/its/ours/theirs, you would never write that is hi"s, contractions. They"re = they are: possessive pronouns. Takes skill to be a reader; takes skill to do ballet. Identifying words requires high acuity: high acuity is available only in the fovea and near parafovea, fovea = parafovea ~6 , fovea = ~5-7 characters; parafovea = ~15 characters. Getting from word to word: smooth pursuit when eye doctor asks you to follow pen, eye moving side to side, reading involves saccades (small eye movements) and stable fixations. Saccades last about 1/50th of a second (20 ms)- the movement. Progressive saccades: bring new text into the center of vision.
