Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 433-440.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.04.07

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Exploring the Reasons of Aging Effect on Encoding Multiple Words during Chinese Reading:Evidence from Disappearing Text

SU Yongqiang, FU Fuyin, LIU Zhifang, CHEN Chaoyang   

  1. Department of Psychology Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
  • Online:2017-07-15 Published:2017-07-15

Abstract: The effect of aging on the process of word encoding for fixated words and words presented to the right of the fixation point during reading of sentences in Chinese was investigated with a disappearing text experiment. The results showed that 40 to 160 ms onset of disappearance manipulations, all of these did not cause disruptions to young adults, which suggested that young readers encode the word n and n+1 parallel, but these conditions made old readers spend more time reading a sentence compared to the normal display condition with the more immediate disappearing onset was more disruptive to text processing. Specifically, the 40 ms onset of disappearance manipulations disrupted reading time most seriously, but the 80 ms, 120 ms and 160 ms onset of disappearance manipulations disrupted reading time almost equally. The results of present experiment indicated a reliable aging effect on the process of multiple words visual encoding in the perceptual span when reading Chinese, and that sensory and cognitive factors are important contributors to these age-related differences.

Key words: Chinese reading, words encoding, aging, eye movements

CLC Number: 

  • G422

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