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ERIC Number: EJ750908
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Dec
Pages: 5
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0096-1523
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Attention to One Word at a Time in Reading is Still a Viable Hypothesis: Rejoinder to Inhoff, Radach, and Eiter (2006)
Pollatsek, Alexander; Reichle, Erik D.; Rayner, Keith
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v32 n6 p1496-1500 Dec 2006
A. W. Inhoff, R. Radach, and B. Eiter (see EJ750907) argue that the current version of the E-Z Reader model (A. Pollatsek, E. D. Reichle, & K. Rayner, see EJ750906) cannot explain 2 key findings in their data, and as a result, the assumption of words being attended to 1 at a time is likely to be false. In this rejoinder, the authors argue that the E-Z Reader model can easily explain the first of the two phenomena and that the second phenomenon is likely to be at least partially an artifact of changing displays during fixations. The authors also argue that their assumptions about attention shifting are not contrary to the attention literature and that the assumption that A. W. Inhoff et al. deem to be unrealistic (i.e., instantaneous shifting of attention) is easily modified within the architecture of the model.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305G020006