Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 115, Issue 3, Pages 579-589Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.01.007
Keywords
Dyslexia; Eye movement; Perceptual span; Rapid automatized naming; Parafoveal processing; Linear mixed model
Funding
- NICHD NIH HHS [P01 HD001994] Funding Source: Medline
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Dyslexic children are known to be slower than normal readers in rapid automatized naming (RAN). This suggests that dyslexics encounter local processing difficulties, which presumably induce a narrower perceptual span. Consequently, dyslexics should suffer less than normal readers from removing parafoveal preview. Here we used a gaze-contingent moving window paradigm in a RAN task to experimentally test this prediction. Results indicate that dyslexics extract less parafoveal information than control children. We propose that more attentional resources are recruited to the foveal processing because of dyslexics' less automatized translation of visual symbols into phonological output, thereby causing a reduction of the perceptual span. This in turn leads to less efficient preactivation of parafoveal information and, hence, more difficulty in processing the next foveal item. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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