Emojis have many functions that support reading. Most obviously, they convey semantic information and support reading comprehension (Lo, CyberPsychology & Behavior, 11[5], 595–597, 2008; Riordan, Computers in Human Behavior, 76, 75–86, 2017b). However, it is undetermined whether emojis recruit the same perceptual and cognitive processes for identification and integration during reading as do words. To investigate whether emojis are processed like words, we used eye tracking to examine the time course of semantic processing of emojis during reading. Materials consisted of sentences containing a target word (e.g., coffee in the sentence “My tall coffee is just the right temperature”) when there was no emoji present and when there was a semantically congruent (i.e., synonymous) emoji (e.g., the cup of coffee emoji,

表情符号具有许多支持阅读的功能。最明显的是，它们所传达的语义信息和支持阅读理解（LO，Cyber​​Psychology与行为，11 [5]，595-597，2008; Riordan的，计算机在人类行为，76，75-86，2017b）。但是，尚不确定表情符号是否与单词一样吸收相同的感知和认知过程来进行识别和整合。为了调查表情符号是否像单词一样被处理，我们使用眼动追踪来检查表情符号在阅读过程中的语义处理时间。材料由包含目标词（例如咖啡）的句子组成 在句子“我的高咖啡温度恰到好处”中），则不存在表情符号，并且在语义上完全一致（即，同义词）（例如，一杯咖啡表情符号，