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Parafoveal Processing and Transposed-Letter Effects in Developmental Dyslexic Reading.

Kirkby, J. A., Barrington, R. S., Drieghe, D. and Liversedge, S. P., 2025. Parafoveal Processing and Transposed-Letter Effects in Developmental Dyslexic Reading. Dyslexia, 31 (1), e1791.

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DOI: 10.1002/dys.1791

Abstract

During reading, adults and children independently parafoveally encode letter identity and letter position information using a flexible letter position encoding mechanism. The current study examined parafoveal encoding of letter position and letter identity for dyslexic children. Eye movements were recorded during a boundary-change paradigm. Parafoveal previews were either an identity preview (e.g., nearly), a transposed-letter preview (e.g., enarly) or a substituted-letter preview (e.g., acarly). Dyslexic readers showed a preview benefit for identity previews, indicating that orthographic information was encoded parafoveally. Furthermore, dyslexic readers benefitted from transposed-letter previews more than substituted-letters previews, demonstrating that letter identity was encoded independently to letter position during parafoveal processing. Although a transposed-letter effect was found for dyslexic readers, they demonstrated a reduced sensitivity to detect transposed-letters in later measures of reading, that is, go-past times, relative to that found for typically developing readers. We conclude that dyslexic readers, with less rich and fully specified lexical representations, have a reduced sensitivity to transpositions of the first two letters of the upcoming word in preview. These findings are compatible with the view that orthographic representations of dyslexic children are not sufficiently specified.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:developmental dyslexia; eye movements; parafoveal processing; reading fluency; transposed‐letter effects;Humans;Dyslexia;Reading;Child;Female;Male;Pattern Recognition, Visual;Eye Movements;Fovea Centralis
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:40628
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:18 Dec 2024 13:27
Last Modified:18 Dec 2024 13:27

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