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The 22nd European Conference on Eye Movements

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This study investigates the preferred viewing location (PVL) of initial landing positions (ILPs) and provides new evidence for the existence of PVL in Chinese reading. Left-of-centre PVL in alphabetic scripts is well-documented, but its presence in non-alphabetic scripts is debated. Different from previous research, which concludes the PVL as artefacts (Li et al., 2011), the present research reveals a left-of-centre PVL in Chinese natural reading. By utilising HKC and eye-movement data, our study echoes the classic PVL for forward fixations within an English word. Additionally, language properties significantly modulate the curving of the PVL: (1) Words in sentence reading have more leftward PVLs from the word centre than those in passage reading; (2) More visually complex words or low-frequency words have more left-of-centre PVLs. We speculate that greater cognitive difficulty contributes to a more leftward deviation of the PVL, which supports a processing-based strategy for saccade targeting of Chinese readers.
Period25 Aug 2024
Event typeConference
LocationMaynoothShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational