| Title | Eye movements and the perceptual span in older and younger readers
| | Authors | Rayner K., Castelhano M.S., Yang J.
| | Journal | Psychol Aging. - 2009. - V.24(3). - pp.755-760
| | Year of publishing | 2009
| | Abstract | The size of the perceptual span (or the span of effective vision) in older readers was examined with the moving window paradigm (G. W. McConkie & K. Rayner, 1975). Two experiments demonstrated that older readers have a smaller and more symmetric span than that of younger readers. These 2 characteristics (smaller and more symmetric span) of older readers may be a consequence of their less efficient processing of nonfoveal information, which results in a riskier reading strategy.
They focused on two of the most basic aspects of eye movements to assess reading strategies: the distance and the direction of the saccades that people make between fixations. In a number of experiments with younger and senior adults, they observed that senior adult readers make longer saccades, skip words more frequently and show more backward eye movements. This pattern was interpreted as the result of a subconscious processing strategy in which senior readers make frequent guesses about the continuation of an unfolding sentence. Rayner et al. postulated the label risky reading to depict this proactive eye-movement profile (in the present study the labels risky reading and proactive reading are used interchangeably).
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