Ghahghaeinezamabadi, Saeideh; Linnell, Karina J; Fischer, Martin H; Dubey, Amit and Davis, Robert. 2013. Effects of load on the time course of attentional engagement, disengagement, and orienting in reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(3), pp. 453-470. ISSN 1747-0218 [Article]

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We examined how the frequency of the fixated word influences the spatiotemporal distribution of covert attention during reading. Participants discriminated gaze-contingent probes that occurred with different spatial and temporal offsets from randomly chosen fixation points during reading. We found that attention was initially focused at fixation and that subsequent defocusing was slower when the fixated word was lower in frequency. Later in a fixation, attention oriented more towards the next saccadic target for high- than for low-frequency words. These results constitute the first report of the time course of the effect of load on attentional engagement and orienting in reading. They are discussed in the context of serial and parallel models of reading.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2011.635795
Keywords:	Attention; Load; Reading; Time course; Word frequency; Engagement; Disengagement; Orienting
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 24 July 2011 Accepted 14 December 2011 Published Online March 2013 Published
Item ID:	36097
Date Deposited:	29 Apr 2024 09:42
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2024 09:42
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36097

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