Eye movement control in reading and visual search: Effects of word frequency
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 3 (2) , 245-248
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03212426
Abstract
Eye movements were recorded as subjects either read text or searched through texts for a target word. In the reading task, there was a robust word frequency effect wherein readers looked longer at low-frequency words than at high-frequency words. However, there was no frequency effect in the search task. The results suggest that decisions to move the eyes during reading are made on a different basis than they are during visual search. Implications for current models of eye movement control in reading are discussed.Keywords
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