Eye movements during mindless reading: Experiments and computational modeling

有时，我们读完一页文字后，才意识到我们根本不知道我们刚刚读的是什么。在这些盲目阅读的情节中，我们的思想在别处，但眼睛仍然在文本上移动。通过使用主观的自我报告措施，在理解这一现象方面取得了最近的进展。在目前的项目中，我们基于几种实验方法，在眼球跟踪实验室中对不同水平的无脑阅读进行了全面的调查：Z-字符串扫描、阅读混杂单词的列表、在分心任务下阅读、略读文本，以及在几个小时的会话中阅读非常长的枯燥文本。使用先进的统计分析(线性混合效应模型)，我们观察到在眼动控制措施中可见的无意识的强烈影响。此外，我们在两个实验范例上对眼动控制的计算模型进行了数值模拟。对于更新方案，我们计划继续这项研究，对第一阶段记录的实验数据进行详细的统计分析，进行新的实验，并进行更多的计算建模，以推断不同的无脑阅读条件对注意力、词汇和眼动过程的影响。

It sometimes happens that we finish reading a page of text just to realize that we have no idea what we just read. During these episodes of mindless reading our mind is elsewhere yet the eyes still move across the text. Recent progress in understanding this phenomenon has been achieved by using subjective self-report measures. In the current project, we investigated the full range of different levels of mindless reading in an eye tracking laboratory based on several experimental approaches: z-string scanning, reading lists of shuffled words, reading with a distractor task, skimming of text, and reading very long passages of boring texts during sessions of several hours. Using advanced statistical analyses (linear mixed effects models), we observed strong effects of mindlessness visible in measure of eyemovement control. Additionally, we performed numerical simulation of a computational model of eye-movement control on two of the experimental paradigms. For the renewal proposal, we planned to continue this research with detailed statistical analyses of recorded experimental data from the first period, with new experiments, and with more computational modeling to infer the influence of different mindless reading conditions on attentional, lexical, and oculomotor processes.