Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Krieber, M; Bartl-Pokorny, KD; Pokorny, FB; Einspieler, C; Langmann, A; Körner, C; Falck-Ytter, T; Marschik, PB.
The Relation between Reading Skills and Eye Movement Patterns in Adolescent Readers: Evidence from a Regular Orthography.
PLoS One. 2016; 11(1):e0145934-e0145934
Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145934
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- Führende Autor*innen der Med Uni Graz
- Krieber-Tomantschger Magdalena
- Marschik Peter
- Co-Autor*innen der Med Uni Graz
- Bartl-Pokorny Katrin Daniela
- Einspieler Christa
- Langmann Andrea
- Pokorny Florian
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- Abstract:
- Over the past decades, the relation between reading skills and eye movement behavior has been well documented in English-speaking cohorts. As English and German differ substantially with regard to orthographic complexity (i.e. grapheme-phoneme correspondence), we aimed to delineate specific characteristics of how reading speed and reading comprehension interact with eye movements in typically developing German-speaking (Austrian) adolescents. Eye movements of 22 participants (14 females; mean age = 13;6 years;months) were tracked while they were performing three tasks, namely silently reading words, texts, and pseudowords. Their reading skills were determined by means of a standardized German reading speed and reading comprehension assessment (Lesegeschwindigkeits- und -verständnistest für Klassen 6-12). We found that (a) reading skills were associated with various eye movement parameters in each of the three reading tasks; (b) better reading skills were associated with an increased efficiency of eye movements, but were primarily linked to spatial reading parameters, such as the number of fixations per word, the total number of saccades and saccadic amplitudes; (c) reading speed was a more reliable predictor for eye movement parameters than reading comprehension; (d) eye movements were highly correlated across reading tasks, which indicates consistent reading performances. Contrary to findings in English-speaking cohorts, the reading skills neither consistently correlated with temporal eye movement parameters nor with the number or percentage of regressions made while performing any of the three reading tasks. These results indicate that, although reading skills are associated with eye movement patterns irrespective of language, the temporal and spatial characteristics of this association may vary with orthographic consistency.
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