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- Title
Ocular strategies analyses during reading through a text comprehension model.
- Authors
Langevin, Etienne; Guérin-Dugué, Anne; Frey, Aline; Lemaire, Benoît
- Abstract
Strategies controlling reading saccades throughout a text depend on many factors including semantic ones. The construction-intégration comprehension model (Kintsch,1998) is used to simulate the time course of the semantic integration process of participants reading texts. This model is based on a Latent Semantic Analysis (Landauer et al., 2007) of a huge text corpus, enabling automatic semantic comparison of words. The eye-tracking data of 28 participants reading 180 texts was used to characterize the optimal human way of text processing. Participants were instructed to read a text and to decide whether or not it was related to a given topic. Using this model, the simulation of the progressive semantic integrations of each fixated word was compared to a fictional reader processing all words and to a fictional random reader processing words located at random. The simulation results show that the human way of performing ocular saccades saves time without altering the construction of the overall meaning of the text. This fixation-based text comprehension model is a powerful tool to investigate the relationship between the saccade progression within a text and the gradual construction of its general meaning.
- Subjects
LATENT semantic analysis; COMPREHENSION; STOCHASTIC processes
- Publication
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2019, Vol 12, Issue 7, p277
- ISSN
1995-8692
- Publication type
Article