Department of Psychology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, USA.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2012 Feb;38(1):191-212. doi: 10.1037/a0025983. Epub 2011 Nov 7.
The current experiments explored the parafoveal processing of transposed-letter (TL) neighbors by using an eye-movement-contingent boundary change paradigm. In Experiment 1 readers received a parafoveal preview of a target word (e.g., calm) that was either (1) identical to the target word (calm), (2) a TL-neighbor (clam), or (3) a substituted-letter (SL) nonword (chem). In Experiment 2 a further set of parafoveal preview conditions was explored including (4) an SL-word condition (chum) and (5) a TL-nonword condition (caml). Across both experiments, readers' fixation durations on the target words were significantly longer when the previews were SL previews than when they were TL neighbors, suggesting that TL neighbors (when presented in the parafovea) facilitate processing rather than inhibit processing. Experiments 3 and 4 showed that this is in contrast to the inhibitory effects that are seen when TL neighbor previews appear in the fovea.
当前的实验通过使用眼动控制边界变化范式探索了转移字母（TL）邻居的旁视加工。在实验 1 中，读者接收到目标词（例如 calm）的旁视预览，该目标词（1）与目标词相同（calm），（2）是 TL 邻居（clam），或（3）是替代字母（SL）非词（chem）。在实验 2 中，进一步探索了一组旁视预览条件，包括（4）SL 词条件（chum）和（5）TL 非词条件（caml）。在这两个实验中，当预览为 SL 预览时，读者对目标词的注视时间明显长于当预览为 TL 邻居时，这表明 TL 邻居（当呈现在旁视区时）促进了处理而不是抑制了处理。实验 3 和 4 表明，这与当 TL 邻居预览出现在注视区时所看到的抑制效应形成对比。
