Abstract
We examined the characteristics of readers' eye movements as they read sentences or short passages of text and compared the durations of eye fixations preceding two types of saccades: (a) saccades to words that were fixated on the prior fixation (return saccades) and (b) saccades in which the eyes moved about the same distance but did not land on a word fixated on the prior fixation (non-return saccades). Consistent with research from much simpler attention or oculomotor tasks, we found what could be considered an inhibition of return effect: fixations preceding return saccades were longer than those preceding non-return saccades.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1027-1034 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Vision Research |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2003 |
Keywords
- Inhibition of return
- Reading
- Saccades