This study investigated how rhyme and meter affect eye movements and subjective aesthetic evaluations while reading poems. Earlier findings suggest that the effects might include prosodic predictability-driven cognitive and affective rewards from increased processing fluency (Blohm, Wagner, Schlesewsky and Menninghaus, 2018, McGlone and Tofighbakhsh, 2000), but also semantic and syntactic disfluency, as rhyme and meter are often implemented at the expense of unusual word forms and word order (Menninghaus et al., 2015, Wallot and Menninghaus, 2018). This study set out to investigate the extent to which eye movements might reveal not only distinct effects of fluency and disfluency at the same time, but potentially also hedonic responses that are associated with longer rather than shorter self-motivated exposure, in line with the hypothesis of “savoring” (Frijda and Sundararajan, 2007). The results reveal several fluency-enhancing effects of rhyme and meter on reading times for more global features of the poems, but also increased disfluency effects on gaze durations for some more local features of the poems. Moreover, some of the latter effects are readily interpretable in terms of the savoring hypothesis. Eye movement characteristics that were predictive of higher aesthetic evaluation—irrespective of the presence or absence of rhyme and meter—similarly resulted in increased fluency, disfluency, and savoring effects. Our study thus reveals, for the first time, a complex picture of effects that co-occur while reading poetic prosody, based on analyzing different dimensions of a single psychophysiological variable, namely, eye movements.

这项研究调查了韵律和韵律如何在朗诵诗歌时影响眼球运动和主观审美评价。较早的发现表明，这种影响可能包括韵律可预测性驱动的认知和情感奖励（来自处理流利度的提高）（Blohm，Wagner，Schlesewsky和Menninghaus，2018年，McGlone和Tofighbakhsh，2000年），还包括语义和句法上的流离失所，因为韵律和韵律是通常会以不寻常的单词形式和单词顺序为代价来实施（Menninghaus等人，2015； Wallot和Menninghaus，2018）。这项研究旨在调查眼球运动可能在多大程度上揭示流利度和视觉效果的独特影响。与此同时，人们可能会表现出不满，但也可能是享乐反应，与较长时间而非较短的自我激励暴露有关，这与“谨慎”的假设相符（Frijda和Sundararajan，2007年）。结果揭示了韵律和量表在阅读时间上的几种流利度增强效果，从而使诗歌具有更全面的特征，但对于某些局部特征，对视线持续时间的流利性影响也有所增强。此外，根据品味假设，后一种影响很容易解释。眼睛运动特性可预测更高的美学评价（无论是否使用韵律和韵律），同样会导致流利性，不流利性和品尝效果。因此，我们的研究首次通过分析单个心理生理变量的不同维度（即眼球运动），首次揭示了阅读诗歌韵律时同时发生的多种复杂效果。