心理与行为研究

心理与行为研究 ›› 2004, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (3): 497-504.

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What Eye Movements Tell About Identifying Compound Words in Reading and Top-Down Effects in Reading Long Texts

Jukka Hyönä   

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Turku, FIN-20014, Turku, Finland
  • 收稿日期:2004-07-21 出版日期:2004-09-20 发布日期:2015-01-21

What Eye Movements Tell About Identifying Compound Words in Reading and Top-Down Effects in Reading Long Texts

Jukka Hyönä   

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Turku, FIN-20014, Turku, Finland
  • Received:2004-07-21 Online:2004-09-20 Published:2015-01-21
  • Contact: Jukka Hyönä:Email: hyona@utu.fi

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摘要： Two lines of research on eye movements in reading are summarized. One line of research examines how adult readers identify compound words during reading. The other line of research deals with how a specific reading goal influences the way long expository texts are read. Both lines of research are conducted using Finnish as the source language. With respect to the first research question, it is demonstrated that compound words are recognized either holistically or via their components, depending on the length of the compound word. Readers begin to process whatever information is readily available in the foveal vision(i.e., either the whole-word form or the initial component). The second line of research demonstrates that(1)a specific reading goal is capable of exerting an early effect on readers' eye fixation patterns,(2)time course analyses based on eye movement patterns can reveal interesting individual differences, and(3)working memory capacity is linked to the efficiency to strategically allocate attention as well as to encode information to and retrieve it from the long-term memory. It is concluded that the eye-tracking technique is an excellent research tool to tap into the workings of the human mind during the comprehension of written texts.

关键词: eye movements, word recognition, compound words, text comprehension, working memory capacity

Abstract: Two lines of research on eye movements in reading are summarized. One line of research examines how adult readers identify compound words during reading. The other line of research deals with how a specific reading goal influences the way long expository texts are read. Both lines of research are conducted using Finnish as the source language. With respect to the first research question, it is demonstrated that compound words are recognized either holistically or via their components, depending on the length of the compound word. Readers begin to process whatever information is readily available in the foveal vision(i.e., either the whole-word form or the initial component). The second line of research demonstrates that(1)a specific reading goal is capable of exerting an early effect on readers' eye fixation patterns,(2)time course analyses based on eye movement patterns can reveal interesting individual differences, and(3)working memory capacity is linked to the efficiency to strategically allocate attention as well as to encode information to and retrieve it from the long-term memory. It is concluded that the eye-tracking technique is an excellent research tool to tap into the workings of the human mind during the comprehension of written texts.

Key words: eye movements, word recognition, compound words, text comprehension, working memory capacity