Effects of contextual constraint on eye movements in reading: A further examination
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 3 (4) , 504-509
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03214555
Abstract
The effect of contextual constraint on eye movements in reading was examined by asking subjects to read sentences that contained a target word that varied in contextual constraint; high-, medium-, or low-constraint target words were used. Subjects fixated low-constraint target words longer than they did either high- or medium-constraint target words. In addition, they skipped high-constraint words more than they did either medium- or low-constraint target words. The results further confirm that contextual constraint has a strong influence on eye movements during reading.Keywords
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