Repository: OpenScienceRepository
Depends: R (>= 2.14)
Date: 2009-04-03 00:00:00
Title: Time course and hazard function: A distributional analysis of fixation duration in reading
Description: Reading processes affect not only the mean of fixation duration but also its distribution function. This paper introduces a set of hypotheses that link the timing and strength of a reading process to the hazard function of a fixation duration distribution. Analyses based on large corpora of reading eye movements show a surprisingly robust hazard function across languages, age, individual differences, and a number of processing variables. The data suggest that eye movements are generated stochastically based on a stereotyped time course that is independent of reading variables. High-level reading processes, however, modulate eye movement programming by increasing or decreasing the momentary saccade rate during a narrow time window. Implications to theories and analyses of reading eye movement are discussed.PS: The author wishes to thank Alan Kennedy for sharing the Dundee English reading eye movement corpus. See the Methods and References sections in the article for more details.
Author: Gary Feng
Maintainer: Gary Feng <garyfeng@duke.edu>
Authors@R: c(person(given ="Gary", family = "Feng", email = "garyfeng@duke.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")))
Package: Feng2009
Version: 1.0
License: CC BY-NC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/)
