Eye movements during reading Simplified and Traditional Chinese

这项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。具体地说，这个问题可以用以下问题来概括：在注视过程中，从注视的单词和相邻的单词中获得了哪种信息(视觉、亚词汇、词汇)？关于(1)心理词典中的词是以严格的顺序出现在句子中还是(B)平行进行的，以及(2)眼动编程是否(A)严格地或(B)仅部分地与词汇通达联系在一起，存在着理论上的争议。这些理论立场之间的核心差异是在相互竞争的计算模型中实现的。我们的研究试图为1b和2b提供理由。由于部件到汉字意义的映射比字母文字中字母到词义的映射更直接，因此中文书写系统特别适合于解决关于分布式词汇处理的争议。此外，由于汉语中词与词之间没有空格，阅读时的眼动控制必须比德语中的阅读更依赖于字符转换概率进行分词。这一项目第一阶段的结果支持了我们的理论立场。事实上，汉语阅读的结果已经为最近的实验铺平了道路，这些实验也与阅读德语的结果类似。更新项目再次与北京师范大学的舒华教授、中国教授和台湾台北的蔡洁丽教授合作进行。该项目的扩展有三个主要的项目目标：(1)黄斑旁形态-语义激活的时间进程；(2)阅读过程中眼动控制的非语言和特定于语言的方面；(3)将着陆位置和注视持续时间作为一个标志点过程(即一种特殊的空间点过程)进行联合分析。

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).