Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 665-677.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.06.04

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Aging Effects on Word Processing in Chinese Reading: Evidences from Eye Movements

LIU Zhifang1, TONG Wen2, ZHANG Jun2   

  1. 1. College of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121;
    2. Department of Psychology, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen 041000
  • Published:2019-11-20

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Abstract: Evidences have shown that aging enlarger the frequency effects in alphabetic languages reading, however, aging effects on predictability effects were not consistent between English and German. Present studies explored the aging effects on word processing in Chinese reading by tracing the eye movements of young and older adults when they reading. With two experiments we explored the age differences in word frequency and predictability effects respectively. The results have shown that (1) comparing to young adults, older adults fixated words for longer time, re-fixated and regressed more often, skipped less often, (2) the interaction between age groups and word frequency were not reliable on first fixation duration, and gaze duration on the target words, however, (3) interaction between age groups and word predictability were significant on all the fixation time and regression probability, the word predictability effect of older adults were lager than that of young adults. Thus these results indicated that aging lead to a decline in the efficiency of word processing, and the aging effects on eye movement control and word processing in Chinese reading were different from those in alphabetic languages reading.

Key words: Chinese reading, word processing, aging, eye movements

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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