The study examined whether word-level eye-movement patterns in text reading can be predicted by individual differences in foveal and parafoveal word processing efficiency. Individual differences in lexical skills were gauged by presenting words and pseudowords with short exposure times in the fovea (30–60 ms) and at varying eccentricities in the parafovea. Lexical decision was used to index orthographic processing, word naming to index phonological processing and pseudoword naming to index grapheme-phoneme decoding. The Random Forests statistical technique was used to assess the relative importance of individual difference measures in predicting readers’ eye-movement patterns. The results show that individual differences in foveal word processing efficiency are better predictors of both foveal and parafoveal word processing during reading than differences in parafoveal processing efficiency. Results indicate that individual variability in foveal word recognition skills are better determinants of reading fluency among adult readers than variability in parafoveal word recognition skills.

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将中心凹和旁中心处理效率与文本阅读中的单词级参数相关联

该研究检验了文本阅读中的单词级眼球运动模式是否可以通过中央凹和中央凹旁文字处理效率的个体差异来预测。通过在中央凹暴露时间短（30-60毫秒）和在旁中央凹不同偏心率呈现单词和伪词来测量词汇技能的个体差异。词汇决策用于索引拼字处理，单词命名用于索引音系处理，伪词命名用于索引字素-音素解码。随机森林统计技术用于评估个体差异测量在预测读者眼球运动模式中的相对重要性。结果表明，在阅读过程中，中央凹文字处理效率的个体差异比中央凹处理效率的差异更能预测阅读过程中中央凹和中央凹文字处理的效果。结果表明，中央凹单词识别技能的个体差异比中央凹单词识别技能的差异更能决定成年读者的阅读流畅性。