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Extending the E‐Z Reader Model of Eye Movement Control to Chinese Readers
Author(s) -
Rayner Keith,
Li Xingshan,
Pollatsek Alexander
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1080/03640210701703824
Subject(s) - eye movement , reading (process) , movement (music) , control (management) , context (archaeology) , linguistics , computer science , psychology , artificial intelligence , history , art , philosophy , archaeology , aesthetics
Chinese readers' eye movements were simulated in the context of the E‐Z Reader model, which was developed to account for the eye movements of readers of English. Despite obvious differences between English and Chinese, the model did a fairly good job of simulating the eye movements of Chinese readers. The successful simulation suggests that the control of eye movements in reading Chinese is similar to that in an alphabetic language such as English.