Adult age differences in parafoveal preview effects during reading: evidence from Chinese

He, L., Ma, W., Shen, F., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Warrington, K.L. ORCID: 0000-0003-3206-8002, Liversedge, S.P. and Paterson, K.B., 2021. Adult age differences in parafoveal preview effects during reading: evidence from Chinese. Psychology and Aging, 36 (7), pp. 822-833. ISSN 0882-7974

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Abstract

We investigated parafoveal processing by 44 young (18-30 years) and 44 older (65+ years) Chinese readers using eye movement measures. Participants read sentences which included an invisible boundary after a two-character word (N) and before two one-character words (N+1, N+2). Before a reader’s gaze crossed the boundary, N+1 and N+2 were shown normally or masked (i.e., as valid/invalid previews), after which they reverted to normal. Young adults obtained preview benefits (a processing advantage for valid over invalid previews) for both words. However, older adults obtained N+2 preview benefits only when N+1 was valid, suggesting their parafoveal processing is more limited.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Psychology and Aging
Creators:	He, L., Ma, W., Shen, F., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Warrington, K.L., Liversedge, S.P. and Paterson, K.B.
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Date:	2021
Volume:	36
Number:	7
ISSN:	0882-7974
Identifiers:	Number Type 1456968 Other 10.1037/pag0000639 DOI
Rights:	© American Psychological Association, 2021. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000639
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	16 Aug 2021 12:50
Last Modified:	13 Jul 2022 17:34
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/43987

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