Rayner Keith, Pollatsek Alexander, Drieghe Denis, Slattery Timothy J, Reichle Erik D
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, US.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2007 Aug;136(3):520-9; discussion 530-7. doi: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.3.520.
R. Kliegl, A. Nuthmann, and R. Engbert reported an impressive set of data analyses dealing with the influence of the prior, present, and next word on the duration of the current eye fixation during reading. They argued that outcomes of their regression analyses indicate that lexical processing is distributed across a number of words during reading. The authors of this comment question their conclusions and address 4 different issues: (a) whether there is evidence for distributed lexical processing, (b) whether so-called parafoveal-on-foveal effects are widespread, (c) the role of correlational analyses in reading research, and (d) problems in their analyses because they use only cases in which words are fixated exactly once.
R. 克莱格、A. 努特曼和R. 恩格伯特报告了一系列令人印象深刻的数据分析，这些分析涉及阅读过程中前一个词、当前词和下一个词对当前眼动注视持续时间的影响。他们认为，回归分析的结果表明，词汇加工在阅读过程中分布于多个词上。本评论的作者对他们的结论提出质疑，并探讨了4个不同的问题：(a) 是否有证据支持分布式词汇加工；(b) 所谓的副中央凹对中央凹效应是否普遍存在；(c) 相关分析在阅读研究中的作用；(d) 他们分析中存在的问题，因为他们只使用了单词恰好被注视一次的情况。
