Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 312-319.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.03.08

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The Aging of Perceptual Span in Different Word Length Sentences: Evidences from Eye Movement

ZHANG Jun1, TONG Wen1, LIU Zhifang2   

  1. 1. College of Educational Sciences, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen 041000;
    2. College of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310000
  • Published:2019-06-19

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Abstract: The moving window paradigm was used to explore the aging patterns of perceptual span of three types of sentences——1-character-word sentence(consisted entirely by single-character word), 2-character-word sentence(consisted entirely by two-character word) and mixed sentences(the average word length was 1.5 characters). The results were as follows:(1) The perceptual span of older adults in Chinese reading was extended from fixated character to two characters to its right on all kinds of sentences; (2) The younger adults' perceptual span was extended from one character to left and three characters to right in all conditions, which was larger than older adults'. This study revealed that aging would result in Chinese readers' perceptual span being smaller and more asymmetric, and the word length of sentence did not modulate the aging pattern of perceptual span in Chinese.

Key words: word length, older adults, younger adults, perceptual span, eye movement

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