Serial or parallel? Using depth-of-processing to examine attention allocation during reading

Erik D. Reichle; Polina M. Vanyukov; Patryk A. Laurent; Tessa Warren

doi:10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.007

Serial or parallel? Using depth-of-processing to examine attention allocation during reading

Erik D. Reichle^*, Polina M. Vanyukov, Patryk A. Laurent, Tessa Warren

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Abstract

This paper presents an experiment investigating attention allocation in four tasks requiring varied degrees of lexical processing of 1-4 simultaneously displayed words. Response times and eye movements were only modestly affected by the number of words in an asterisk-detection task but increased markedly with the number of words in letter-detection, rhyme-judgment, and semantic-judgment tasks, suggesting that attention may not be serial for tasks that do not require significant lexical processing (e.g., detecting visual features), but is approximately serial for tasks that do (e.g., retrieving word meanings). The implications of these results for models of readers' eye movements are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1831-1836
Number of pages	6
Journal	Vision Research
Volume	48
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.007
Publication status	Published - Aug 2008
Externally published	Yes

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Erratum can be found in Vision Research (2010), Vol. 50, Issue 19, p. 2028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2010.07.016.

Keywords

attention
Eye-movement control
reading
E-Z Reader
SWIFT

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Serial or parallel? Using depth-of-processing to examine attention allocation during reading

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