Adult Age Differences in Parafoveal Preview Effects During Reading: Evidence From Chinese

Liyuan He; Weidong Ma; Fengdan Shen; Yongsheng Wang; Jie Wu; Kayleigh L. Warrington; Simon P. Liversedge; Kevin B. Paterson

doi:10.1037/pag0000639

Adult Age Differences in Parafoveal Preview Effects During Reading: Evidence From Chinese

Liyuan He, Weidong Ma, Fengdan Shen, Yongsheng Wang, Jie Wu^*, Kayleigh L. Warrington, Simon P. Liversedge, Kevin B. Paterson

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Abstract

We investigated parafoveal processing by 44 young (18–30 years) and 44 older (65+ years) Chinese readers using eye movement measures. Participants read sentences which included an invisible boundary after a two-character word (N) and before two one-character words (N + 1, N + 2). Before a reader’s gaze crossed the boundary, N + 1 and N + 2 were shown normally or masked (i.e., as valid/invalid previews), after which they reverted to normal. Young adults obtained preview beneﬁts (a processing advantage for valid over invalid previews) for both words.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	822-833
Number of pages	12
Journal	Psychology and Aging
Volume	36
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000639
Publication status	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Chinese
cogntive aging
eye movements in reading
N + 2 preview effects
parafoveal processing

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