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Word frequency and contextual predictability effects in reading: It depends where you’re coming from.

Hand, Christopher, J. ; Miellet, Sebastien ; O'Donnell, Patrick, J. ; Sereno, Sara, C.

In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 1294-1313

A word’s frequency of occurrence and its predictability from a prior context are key factors determining how long the eyes remain on that word in normal reading. Past reaction-time and eye movement research can be distinguished by whether these variables, when combined, produce interactive or additive results, respectively. Our study addressed possible methodological limitations of prior...