Using virtual reality to study reading: An eye-tracking investigation of transposed-word effects. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mirault, Jonathan; Guerre-Genton, Agnès; Dufau, Stéphane; Grainger, Jonathan
• Is Part Of: Methods in psychology. Volume 3(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: Virtual reality -- Eye-tracking -- Grammaticality judgments -- Reading -- Transposed-word; Psychology -- Periodicals; 150.5
• DOI: 10.1016/j.metip.2020.100029
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2590-2601

Abstract

Abstract: Eye movements were recorded using a virtual reality (VR) set-up as participants made grammatical decisions to sequences of words. Ungrammatical decisions were harder to make to transposed-word sequences ( The white was cat big ) compared with control sequences where transposing two adjacent words never produces a correct sentence ( The black ran dog fat ). Crucially, we found significant transposed-word effects independently of the order in which the two critical words were fixated (i.e., was before cat vs. cat before was ), thus falsifying a reading out-of-order account of transposed-word effects.