Faber Myrthe, Mak Marloes, Willems Roel M
Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboudumc, The Netherlands.
Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, The Netherlands.
J Eye Mov Res. 2020 Feb 27;13(3). doi: 10.16910/jemr.13.3.2.
Decades of research have established that the content of language (e.g. lexical characteristics of words) predicts eye movements during reading. Here we investigate whether there exist individual differences in 'stable' eye movement patterns during narrative reading. We computed Euclidean distances from correlations between gaze durations time courses (word level) across 102 participants who each read three literary narratives in Dutch. The resulting distance matrices were compared between narratives using a Mantel test. The results show that correlations between the scaling matrices of different narratives are relatively weak (r ≤ .11) when missing data points are ignored. However, when including these data points as zero durations (i.e. skipped words), we found significant correlations between stories (r > .51). Word skipping was significantly positively associated with print exposure but not with self-rated attention and story-world absorption, suggesting that more experienced readers are more likely to skip words, and do so in a comparable fashion. We interpret this finding as suggesting that word skipping might be a stable individual eye movement pattern.
数十年的研究已证实，语言内容（如单词的词汇特征）可预测阅读过程中的眼动。在此，我们研究在叙事性阅读过程中，“稳定的”眼动模式是否存在个体差异。我们计算了102名参与者（每人阅读三篇荷兰语文学叙事）注视时长时间进程（单词层面）之间相关性的欧几里得距离。使用Mantel检验比较了不同叙事之间的所得距离矩阵。结果表明，当忽略缺失数据点时，不同叙事的缩放矩阵之间的相关性相对较弱（r≤0.11）。然而，当将这些数据点视为零持续时间（即跳过的单词）时，我们发现故事之间存在显著相关性（r>0.51）。单词跳过与印刷品接触显著正相关，但与自我评定的注意力和故事世界沉浸度无关，这表明经验更丰富的读者更有可能跳过单词，并且是以类似的方式这样做。我们将这一发现解释为表明单词跳过可能是一种稳定的个体眼动模式。
