What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Higher Level Comprehension?
The majority of eye tracking studies in reading are on issues dealing with word level or sentence level comprehension. By comparison, relatively few eye tracking studies of reading examine questions related to higher level comprehension in processing of longer texts. We present data from an eye trac...
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| description | The majority of eye tracking studies in reading are on issues dealing with word level or sentence level comprehension. By comparison, relatively few eye tracking studies of reading examine questions related to higher level comprehension in processing of longer texts. We present data from an eye tracking study of anaphor resolution in order to examine specific issues related to this discourse phenomenon and to raise more general methodological and theoretical issues in eye tracking studies of discourse processing. This includes matters related to the design of materials as well as the interpretation of measures with regard to underlying comprehension processes. In addition, we provide several examples from eye tracking studies of discourse to demonstrate the kinds of questions that may be addressed with this methodology, particularly with respect to the temporality of processing in higher level comprehension and how such questions correspond to recent theoretical arguments in the field. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e5599dc658b4650b63769b61f96d6442022-12-21T19:10:58ZengMDPI AGVision2411-51502019-09-01334510.3390/vision3030045vision3030045What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Higher Level Comprehension?Anne E. Cook0Wei Wei1Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USADepartment of Educational Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USAThe majority of eye tracking studies in reading are on issues dealing with word level or sentence level comprehension. By comparison, relatively few eye tracking studies of reading examine questions related to higher level comprehension in processing of longer texts. We present data from an eye tracking study of anaphor resolution in order to examine specific issues related to this discourse phenomenon and to raise more general methodological and theoretical issues in eye tracking studies of discourse processing. This includes matters related to the design of materials as well as the interpretation of measures with regard to underlying comprehension processes. In addition, we provide several examples from eye tracking studies of discourse to demonstrate the kinds of questions that may be addressed with this methodology, particularly with respect to the temporality of processing in higher level comprehension and how such questions correspond to recent theoretical arguments in the field.https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/3/3/45eye trackingreadinganaphordiscourse comprehension |
| spellingShingle | Anne E. Cook Wei Wei What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Higher Level Comprehension? Vision eye tracking reading anaphor discourse comprehension |
| title | What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Higher Level Comprehension? |
| title_full | What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Higher Level Comprehension? |
| title_fullStr | What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Higher Level Comprehension? |
| title_full_unstemmed | What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Higher Level Comprehension? |
| title_short | What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Higher Level Comprehension? |
| title_sort | what can eye movements tell us about higher level comprehension |
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