Effect of Task Demands on Relationship between Eye Movements and Sentence Complexity
- 1 October 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 39 (1) , 463-466
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1974.39.1.463
Abstract
Eye movements were recorded while 8 Ss scanned self-embedded or right-branching sentences. On half the trials, Ss were forewarned that questions would follow sentence presentation. There were significantly more eye movements for the self-embedded than for the right-branching sentences, and this difference was much greater in the question condition than the non-question condition. The importance of task demands for scanning behavior was discussed.Keywords
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