Memory for word locations in reading |
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Authors: | Fischer M H |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. martin@psy.uni-muenchen.de |
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Abstract: | Sentences were presented in various spatial formats, and readers localised one word of each sentence using a mouse cursor directly after reading. There was a localisation advantage for cumulative over single-word displays, for left-to-right presentation over presentation in a 3 x 3 grid, and for complete over incomplete sentences. Comparing performance for predictable and unpredictable word locations suggests that word location memory in reading decays within three seconds to a span of only 2-3 entries, and that readers can then reconstruct word locations from item memory. Implications for the role of spatial cognition in reading are discussed. |
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