Regularities in Reading Times
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Final Report Abstract
The goal of the current project was to investigate the concept of reading process regularity. The concept holds that reading with good text comprehension is associated with a high degree of regularity in process measures of reading, such as eye movements. The assumption is that the reading process is co-controlled by text features, which can be word features that indicate whether a word is easy or difficult to understand, or syntactic features that indicate whether a sentence is easy or difficult to understand. Good readers - that is, readers who read with high with text comprehension - use such information systematically, which in turn leads to an increase in regularity in the reading process (in this case, eye movements during reading). In this project, we were able to show that the assumption that regularity in eye movements is influences by such text features is justified: the presence of linguistic text features increased eye movement regularity. Furthermore, we showed that the degree of regularity in eye movement fluctuations predicts text comprehension. Finally, the prediction of text comprehension based on regularity measures works relatively robustly across different text and reading conditions, such as slow or fast reading.
Publications
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Switching between reading tasks leads to phase-transitions in reading times in L1 and L2 readers. PLOS ONE, 14(2), e0211502.
Wallot, Sebastian; Lee, Jun Taek & Kelty-Stephen, Damian G.
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Nonlinear Dynamics of Text Reading: Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Eye Movements. Proceedings of the ST&D 2020 Conference
Tschense, M., & Wallot, S.
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Nonlinear Dynamics of Text Reading: Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Eye Movements. ST&D Conference 2021, Online Conference, (Virtual Talk)
Tschense, M., & Wallot, S.
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‘Reading time regularity’ as a process measure of reading comprehension. Center for the Ecological Study of Perception & Action (CESPA), University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT, USA (Virtual Talk)
Wallot, S.
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Distangling Text Comprehension. ST&D Conference 2021, Online Conference, (Virtual Talk)
Tschense, M., & Wallot, S.
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Looking in patterns: Recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) of eye movements. TeaP21 - Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologinnen, Ulm, Germany, (Virtual Talk)
Tschense, M. & Wallot, S.
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Recurrence-based analyses: A brief introduction to the new ‘crqa’ package for R. 9th European congress of Methodology, Online Conference, (Virtual Talk)
Wallot, S.
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Unidimensional and Multidimensional Methods for Recurrence Quantification Analysis with crqa. The R Journal, 13(1), 145.
Coco, Moreno; I.; Mønster, Dan; Leonardi, Giuseppe; Dale, Rick & Wallot, Sebastian
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‘crqa’: An R package for Recurrence Quantification Analysis for Categorical and Continuous Time-Series
Coco, M. I., Mønster, D. Leonardi, G., Dale, R., & Wallot, S.
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Mental representation and text comprehension (pp. 218-219). In E. Ferstl, L. Konieczny, R. von Stülpnagel, J. Beck & L. Zacharsk (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science
Tschense, M. & Wallot, S.
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Mental representation and text comprehension. KogWis 2022, Freiburg, Deutschland
Tschense, M. & Wallot, S.
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Modeling items for text comprehension assessment using confirmatory factor analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 13 (2022, 10, 20).
Tschense, Monika & Wallot, Sebastian
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Non-linear dynamics of eye movements during text reading. The 9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Erfurt, Germany
Tschense, M., & Wallot, S.
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Using measures of reading time regularity (RTR) to quantify eye movement dynamics, and how they are shaped by linguistic information. Journal of Vision, 22(6), 9.
Tschense, Monika & Wallot, Sebastian
