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What Eye Movements Reveal About Later Comprehension of Long Connected Texts
- Source :
- Cognitive scienceReferences. 44(10)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- We know that reading involves coordination between textual characteristics and visual attention, but research linking eye movements during reading and comprehension assessed after reading is surprisingly limited, especially for reading long connected texts. We tested two competing possibilities: (a) the weak association hypothesis: Links between eye movements and comprehension are weak and short-lived, versus (b) the strong association hypothesis: The two are robustly linked, even after a delay. Using a predictive modeling approach, we trained regression models to predict comprehension scores from global eye movement features, using participant-level cross-validation to ensure that the models generalize across participants. We used data from three studies in which readers (Ns = 104, 130, 147) answered multiple-choice comprehension questions ~30 min after reading a 6,500-word text, or after reading up to eight 1,000-word texts. The models generated accurate predictions of participants' text comprehension scores (correlations between observed and predicted comprehension: 0.384, 0.362, 0.372, ps
- Subjects :
- Male
Eye Movements
Cognitive Neuroscience
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
050105 experimental psychology
Correlation
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Text processing
Artificial Intelligence
Reading (process)
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Generalizability theory
Association (psychology)
Eye-Tracking Technology
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05 social sciences
Eye movement
Reproducibility of Results
Comprehension
Reading comprehension
Reading
Female
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
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- ISSN :
- 15516709
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cognitive scienceReferences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....658c96db07dec83d2c050aa40bae2779