École de Psychologie, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB E1A 3E9, Canada.
Mem Cognit. 2013 Jan;41(1):122-36. doi: 10.3758/s13421-012-0243-z.
During reading, participants generally move their eyes rightward on the line. A number of eye movements, called regressions, are made leftward, to words that have already been fixated. In the present study, we investigated the role of verbal memory during regressions. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to read sentences for comprehension. After reading, they were asked to make a regression to a target word presented auditorily. The results revealed that their regressions were guided by memory, as they differed from those of a control group who did not read the sentences. The role of verbal memory during regressions was then investigated by combining the reading task with articulatory suppression (Exps. 2 and 3). The results showed that articulatory suppression affected the size and the accuracy of the initial regression but had a minimal effect on corrective saccades. This suggests that verbal memory plays an important role in determining the location of the initial saccade during regressions.
阅读时，读者通常会眼球向右移动。眼球会向左进行数次称为回视的运动，以便阅读已经注视过的单词。在本研究中，我们研究了回视过程中言语记忆的作用。在实验 1 中，参与者被要求阅读句子以理解其内容。阅读后，他们需要根据听觉呈现的目标词进行回视。结果表明，他们的回视受到记忆的引导，这与没有阅读句子的对照组不同。然后，我们通过将阅读任务与发音抑制（实验 2 和实验 3）相结合，进一步研究了回视过程中的言语记忆作用。结果表明，发音抑制会影响初始回视的幅度和准确性，但对纠正性扫视的影响最小。这表明言语记忆在确定回视中初始扫视的位置方面起着重要作用。
