Eye movements during reading Simplified and Traditional Chinese

本研究的首要目标是了解阅读过程中注意力和眼球运动的动态。具体来说，这个问题可以概括为以下问题：在注视过程中，哪一种信息（视觉的、亚词汇的、词汇的）可以从被注视的单词和邻近的单词中获得？关于(1)心理词汇中的词汇是(a)按照它们在句子中出现的严格顺序访问还是(b)平行访问，以及(2)眼动编程与词汇访问是(a)严格联系还是(b)部分联系，存在理论争议。这些理论立场之间的核心差异是在竞争的计算模型中实现的。我们的研究试图证明1b和2b。由于汉字的组成部分对汉字意义的映射比字母对单词意义的映射更直接，因此汉字书写系统特别适合解决分布式词汇处理的争议。此外，由于汉语单词之间没有空格，阅读时的眼动控制必须比德语阅读时更依赖字符转移概率进行分词。该项目的第一期研究结果支持了我们的理论立场。事实上，阅读中文的结果为最近阅读德语的类似结果铺平了道路。更新项目再次与中国北京师范大学舒华教授和台湾台北蔡杰利教授合作进行。本项目的扩展主要有三个项目目标：(1)副中央凹形态语义激活的时间过程；(2)阅读过程中眼动控制的语言无关和语言特定方面；(3)作为标记点过程（即一种特殊的空间点过程）的着落位置和注视持续时间的联合分析。

The overarching goal of this research is to understand the dynamics of attention and eye movements during reading. Specifically, the problem can be summarized with the following question: When during a fixation does which kind of information (visual, sublexical, lexical) become available from the fixated word and the neighboring words? There are theoretical controversies about (1) whether words in the mental lexicon are accessed (a) in strict serial order of their appearance in sentences or (b) in parallel and (2) whether programming of eye movements is (a) strictly or (b) only partially linked to lexical access. The core differences between these theoretical positions are implemented in competing computational models. Our research tries to make the case for 1b and 2b. Due to the more direct mapping of components to the meaning of characters in Chinese than the mapping of letters to the meaning of words in alphabetic script, the Chinese writing system is uniquely suited to address the controversy about distributed lexical processing. Moreover, due to the absence of spaces between words in Chinese, eye-movement control during reading must rely more strongly on character transition probabilities for word segmentation than reading in German. Results of the first phase of this project are in support of our theoretical positions. Indeed, the results from reading of Chinese have paved the way for recent experiments with similar results from reading of German. The renewal project is again carried out in collaboration with Prof. Hua Shu, Beijing Normal University, China, and Prof. Jie-Li Tsai, Taipei, Taiwan. There are three main project goals for the extension of this project: (1) time course of parafoveal morpho-semantic activation, (2) language-independent and language-specific aspects of eye-movement control during reading, and (3) joint analysis of landing position and fixation durations as a marked point process (i.e., a special kind of spatial point process).