老年人与青年人阅读空格文本的注视位置效应

采用EyeLink2000眼动仪,以14名老年人和14名青年人为被试,探讨他们阅读空格汉语文本的注视位置效应.阅读材料分为正常无空格文本和词间空格文本两种.结果发现:(1)在阅读词间空格文本和正常无空格文本时,老年人与青年人都表现出单次注视的首次注视是位于词的中心,多次注视的首次注视是位于词的开头;(2)老年人阅读正常无空格文本时对词尾的注视概率显著低于词间空格文本,而青年人则没有差异.结果表明老年人与青年人在阅读空格文本时存在注视位置效应.

The Landing Positions of Older and Younger Adults while Reading Spaced Text

The present study investigated the landing positions of elder and younger adult readers when reading spaced Chinese text. 14 older and 14 younger adults participated in the current study, with their eye movements recorded using an SR research EyeLink 2000 eyetracker. The Chinese sentences in the experiment included normal unspaced text and word spaced text (text with spaces between words). The results showed that: (1) there was a similar pattern in saccadic target selection between younger adults and older adults while reading both unspaced and word spaced text, with a strong tendency to fixate the word center in single-fixation cases, and to fixate the word beginning in multiple-fixation cases; (2) For elder adults, the probability of fixations landing at the end of the words was lower while reading normal unspaced text than word spaced text. However, for young adults, there was no difference of the probability of landing at the end of the words when reading normal unspaced text and word spaced text. The results indicated that there were landing position effects while reading spaced Chinese text for elder readers and younger readers.