ABSTRACT

This article explores the relationship between low- and high-level aspects of reading by studying the interplay between word processing, as measured with eye tracking, and narrative absorption and liking, as measured with questionnaires. Specifically, we focused on how individual differences in sensitivity to lexical word characteristics—measured as the effect of these characteristics on gaze duration—were related to narrative absorption and liking. By reanalyzing a large data set consisting of three previous eye-tracking experiments in which subjects (N = 171) read literary short stories, we replicated the well-established finding that word length, lemma frequency, position in sentence, age of acquisition, and orthographic neighborhood size of words influenced gaze duration. More importantly, we found that individual differences in the degree of sensitivity to three of these word characteristics, i.e., word length, lemma frequency, and age of acquisition, were negatively related to print exposure and to a lesser degree to narrative absorption and liking. Even though the underlying mechanisms of this relationship are still unclear, we believe the current findings underline the need to map out the interplay between, on the one hand, the technical and, on the other hand, the subjective processes of reading by studying reading behavior in more natural settings.

摘要

本文通过研究用眼动追踪测量的文字处理与用问卷测量的叙事吸收和喜好之间的相互作用，探讨阅读的低级和高级方面之间的关系。具体来说，我们关注个体对词汇特征敏感度的差异——以这些特征对凝视持续时间的影响来衡量——与叙事吸收和喜好之间的关系。通过重新分析由三个先前的眼球追踪实验组成的大数据集，其中受试者 ( N= 171) 阅读文学短篇小说，我们重复了一个公认的发现，即字长、引理频率、句子中的位置、习得年龄和单词的正交邻域大小影响凝视持续时间。更重要的是，我们发现对这三个词特征（即词长、引理频率和习得年龄）的敏感程度的个体差异与印刷曝光呈负相关，而与叙事吸收和喜好的程度较小。尽管这种关系的潜在机制尚不清楚，但我们认为目前的研究结果强调需要通过研究阅读行为来描绘出一方面是技术阅读过程，另一方面是主观阅读过程之间的相互作用。在更自然的环境中。