This study is a large-scale exploration of the influence that individual reading skills exert on eye-movement behavior in sentence reading. Seventy one non-college-bound 16-24 year-old speakers of English completed a battery of 18 verbal and cognitive skill assessments, and read a series of sentences as their eye movements were monitored. Statistical analyses were performed to establish what tests of reading abilities were predictive of eye-movement patterns across this population and how strong the effects were. We found that individual scores in rapid automatized naming and word identification tests (i) were the only participant variables with reliable predictivity throughout the time-course of reading; (ii) elicited effects that superceded in magnitude the effects of established predictors like word length or frequency; and (iii) strongly modulated the influence of word length and frequency on fixation times. We discuss implications of our findings for testing reading ability, as well as for research of eye-movements in reading.

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语言技能个体差异对句子阅读时眼动模式的影响

本研究是对个体阅读技能对句子阅读中眼动行为影响的大规模探索。71 名 16 至 24 岁的英语非大学毕业生完成了 18 项口头和认知技能评估，并在监测他们的眼球运动时阅读了一系列句子。进行了统计分析以确定阅读能力的哪些测试可以预测该人群的眼球运动模式以及影响的强度。我们发现在快速自动命名和单词识别测试 (i) 中的个人分数是在整个阅读过程中唯一具有可靠预测性的参与者变量；(ii) 引发的影响在数量上超过了既定预测因素（如字长或频率）的影响；(iii) 强烈调节字长和频率对注视时间的影响。我们讨论了我们的发现对测试阅读能力以及阅读时眼动研究的影响。