Orthographic processing: A 'mid-level'vision of reading: The 44th Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecture

J Grainger - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
I will describe how orthographic processing acts as a central interface between visual and
linguistic processing during reading, and as such can be considered to be the 'mid-level …

Spelling ability selectively predicts the magnitude of disruption in unspaced text reading.

A Veldre, D Drieghe, S Andrews - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
We examined the effect of individual differences in written language proficiency on
unspaced text reading in a large sample of skilled adult readers who were assessed on …

Interword and interletter spacing effects during reading revisited: Interactions with word and font characteristics.

TJ Slattery, M Yates, B Angele - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite the large number of eye movement studies conducted over the past 30+ years,
relatively few have examined the influence that font characteristics have on reading …

Alternative criteria for writing system typology: Cross-linguistic observations from the German and Japanese writing systems

T Joyce, D Meletis - Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 - degruyter.com
In essence, typologies of writing systems seek to classify the world's diverse writing systems
in principled ways. However, against backdrops of early, misguided assumptions (Gelb …

The impact of interword spacing on inference processing during text reading: Evidence from eye movements

AL Christofalos, NM Arco, M Laks… - Discourse Processes, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Removing interword spacing has been shown to disrupt lower-level oculomotor processes
and word identification during text reading. However, the impact of these disruptions on …

Parafoveal preview effects in reading unspaced text.

D Drieghe, G Fitzsimmons… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract In English reading, eye guidance relies heavily on the spaces between words for
demarcating word boundaries. In an eye tracking experiment, we examined the impact of …

A co-registration investigation of inter-word spacing and parafoveal preview: Eye movements and fixation-related potentials

F Degno, O Loberg, C Zang, M Zhang, N Donnelly… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Participants' eye movements (EMs) and EEG signal were simultaneously recorded to
examine foveal and parafoveal processing during sentence reading. All the words in the …

Reading without spaces revisited: The role of word identification and sentence-level constraints

J Mirault, J Snell, J Grainger - Acta psychologica, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study examined the relative contribution of bottom-up word identification and
top-down sentence-level constraints in facilitating the reading of text printed without between …

Effects of word spacing on children's reading: Evidence from eye movements

S Li, Y Wang, Z Lan, X Yuan, L Zhang, G Yan - Reading and Writing, 2022 - Springer
Word is important in Chinese reading. However, when inter-word spaces are inserted into
Chinese text, there is no facilitation or disruption to adults' reading. Researchers argued that …

What is the optimal position of low‐frequency words across line boundaries? An eye movement investigation

AJ Parker, M Räsänen… - Applied Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
When displaying text on a page or a screen, only a finite number of characters can be
presented on a single line. If the text exceeds that finite value, then text wrap** occurs …