PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Word Lists By Frequency, Saccade, Lexical Decision Task
19 Feb 2014
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Getting words into the system involves translation of written symbols into meaning. Series of pauses (fixations) and jumps (saccades: fixation ~ 250 ms (80% of content words, saccade ~ 10-20 ms. Why series of fixations and saccades: visual acuity best at foveated area, high resolution is where we foveate in order to pick up details of words. Immediacy: reader attempts to interpret each (content) word (not the, of, but) as it is encountered, some words take longer to interpret. Eye-mind: eye will remain fixated on a word as long as the word is being processed. Where the person was looking, they would cover the word so you couldn"t see it. You would see a blank spot where you were foveating. Reading rate drops from 300 wpm to 50 wpm. Skipping words (carpenter and just: when skip a word, it is usually a function word (the, and, but)
