Using eye-tracking to detect reading difficulties

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2011

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Edições Universitárias Lusófonas

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Taking into account the study of Luegi (2006), where eye movements of 20 Portuguese university students while reading text passages were analyzed, in this article we discuss some methodological issues concerning eye tracking measures to evaluate reading difficulties. Relating syntactic complexity, grammaticality and ambiguity to eye movements, we will discuss the use of many different dependent variables that indicate the immediate and delayed processes in text processing. We propose a new measure that we called Progression-Path which permits analyzing, in the critical region, what happens when the reader proceeds on the sentence instead of going backwards to solve a problem that s/he found (which is the most common expected behavior but not the only one, as is illustrated by some of our examples).

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Journal of Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion

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DIFICULDADES DE APRENDIZAGEM, LEITURA, EYE TRACKING, PSICOLOGIA, LEARNING DISABILITIES, READING, EYE TRACKING, PSYCHOLOGY

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Luegi , P , Costa , A & Faria , I H 2011 , ' Using eye-tracking to detect reading difficulties ' , Journal of Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion .

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