Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (2): 171-179.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.02.06

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The Landing Positions of Older and Younger Adults while Reading Spaced Text

BAI Xuejun, GUO Zhiying, WANG Yongsheng, GAO Xiaolei, YAN Guoli   

  1. Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Center of Cooperative Innovation for Mental Health Evaluation and Promotion, Tianjin 300074
  • Online:2015-03-15 Published:2015-03-15

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Abstract: The present study investigated the landing positions of elder and younger adult readers when reading spaced Chinese text. 14 older and 14 younger adults participated in the current study, with their eye movements recorded using an SR research EyeLink 2000 eyetracker. The Chinese sentences in the experiment included normal unspaced text and word spaced text (text with spaces between words). The results showed that: (1) there was a similar pattern in saccadic target selection between younger adults and older adults while reading both unspaced and word spaced text, with a strong tendency to fixate the word center in single-fixation cases, and to fixate the word beginning in multiple-fixation cases; (2) For elder adults, the probability of fixations landing at the end of the words was lower while reading normal unspaced text than word spaced text. However, for young adults, there was no difference of the probability of landing at the end of the words when reading normal unspaced text and word spaced text. The results indicated that there were landing position effects while reading spaced Chinese text for elder readers and younger readers.

Key words: word segmentation, Young adults, Older adults, Landing position effect, Eye movements

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  • B844
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