Schiepers proposed that in text reading, the currently fixated word and the next word are processed in parallel but with a time delay of 90 ms per degree of eccentricity. In his model, the benefit of seeing the upcoming word is due to the fact that the parafoveal information from fixation n is combined with the foveal information from fixation n+1 to boost word recognition, at least when the fi...

In two experiments, we investigated whether visual field (VF) asymmetries of spatial cueing are involved in reading parafoveal Chinese characters. These characters are different from linearly arranged alphabetic words in that they are logograms that are confined to a constant, square-shaped area and are composed of only a few radicals. We observed a cueing effect, but it did not vary with the V...

In two experiments. adults’ eye movements were monitored while they read sentences containing prefixed (e.g.. REVIVE) or pseudoprefixed (e.g.. RESCUE) words closely matched on initial letter pattern. frequency. length. and syntactic category. It was found that pseudoprefixed words received longer fixations and were associated with shorter departing saccades than prefixed words. These results su...

Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasis associated with hepatic artery aneurysm has only once been recorded in the literature (Graham, Eiseman, and Pryor, 1964). This case is reported because the concurrence of these conditions, together with gastric and duodenal ulcers, serves to illustrate difficulties in the management of a patient with a bleeding diathesis who has four possible causes of gas...

During natural reading, a parafoveal preview of the upcoming word facilitates its subsequent recognition (e.g., shorter fixation durations compared to masked preview) but nothing is known about the neural correlates of this so-called preview benefit. Furthermore, while the evidence is strong that readers preprocess orthographic features of upcoming words, it is controversial whether word meanin...