Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-33 |
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Number of pages | 33 |
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Journal | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology |
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Early online date | 11 Jul 2017 |
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DOIs | |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 11 Jul 2017 |
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We explore two aspects of exovergence: we test whether smaller binocular fixation disparities accompany the shorter saccades and longer fixations observed in reading Chinese; we test whether potentially advantageous psychophysical effects of exovergence (cf. Arnold Schindel, 2010; Kersten Murray, 2010) transfer to text reading. We report differential exovergence in reading Chinese and English: Chinese readers begin fixations with more binocular disparity, but end fixations with a disparity closely similar to that of the English readers. We conclude that greater fixation-initial binocular fixation disparity can be adaptive in the reading of visually and cognitively denser text.
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