Ramesh Kumar Mishra|Niharika Singh|Aparna Pandey|Falk Huettig
Spoken language-mediated anticipatory eye-movements are modulated by reading ability - Evidence from Indian low and high literates
University of Allahabad|University of Allahabad|University of Allahabad|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Radboud University Nijmegen
investigated whether levels reading ability attained formal literacy related anticipatory languagemediated eye movements indian low high literates listened simple spoken sentences containing target word eg door time looking visual display four objects target ie door three distractors spoken sentences constructed way participants could use semantic associative syntactic information adjectives particles preceding critical noun anticipate visual target objects high literates started shift eye gaze target objects well target word onset low literacy group shift eye gaze occurred target noun ie door heard second later findings suggest formal literacy may important finetuning languagemediated anticipatory mechanisms abilities proficient language users exploit cognitive activities spoken languagemediated eye gaze conclusion discuss three potential mechanisms reading acquisition practice may contribute differences predictive spoken language processing low high literates