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Training improves reading speed in peripheral vision: Is it due to attention?
- Title
- Training improves reading speed in peripheral vision: Is it due to attention?
- Authors
- Lee H.-W.; Kwon M.; Legge G.E.; Gefroh J.J.
- Ewha Authors
- 이혜원
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 이혜원
- Issue Date
- 2010
- Journal Title
- Journal of Vision
- ISSN
- 1534-7362
- Citation
- Journal of Vision vol. 10, no. 6
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Previous research has shown that perceptual training in peripheral vision, using a letter-recognition task, increases reading speed and letter recognition (S. T. L. Chung, G. E. Legge, & S. H. Cheung, 2004). We tested the hypothesis that enhanced deployment of spatial attention to peripheral vision explains this training effect. Subjects were pre- and post-tested with 3 tasks at 10° above and below fixation-RSVP reading speed, trigram letter recognition (used to construct visual-span profiles), and deployment of spatial attention (measured as the benefit of a pre-cue for target position in a lexical-decision task). Groups of five normally sighted young adults received 4 days of trigram letter-recognition training in upper or lower visual fields, or central vision. A control group received no training. Our measure of deployment of spatial attention revealed visual-field anisotropies; better deployment of attention in the lower field than the upper, and in the lower-right quadrant compared with the other three quadrants. All subject groups exhibited slight improvement in deployment of spatial attention to peripheral vision in the post-test, but this improvement was not correlated with training-related increases in reading speed and the size of visual-span profiles. Our results indicate that improved deployment of spatial attention to peripheral vision does not account for improved reading speed and letter recognition in peripheral vision. © ARVO.
- DOI
- 10.1167/10.6.18
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- 사회과학대학 > 심리학전공 > Journal papers
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