Host: The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
The aim of this study is not only to analyze word properties effects on eye on eye fixation duration in Korean reading but also to show how these phenomena differ between adolescents, young adults and older adults.
Through eye movement tracking experiments controlled word frequency, three experiments show that the fovea information processing in reading. In Experiment 1, 20 adolescents(13-14yrs) participated, who were native speakers of Korean and had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. Eye movements were recorded via an Eyelink II eye tracker. 150 pairs of two syllable Korean words were chosen for the experiment. In the same conditions and methods as in Experiment1, Experiments 2 was conducted for 20 undergraduate students of SNU(20-24yrs) and Experiment3 was conducted for 20 older adults who graduated in SNU(71-75yrs).
