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. 2012 Aug 8;7(8):e41766. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041766

Table 2. Eye Movement Measures for High and Low Frequency Target Words for Each Display Condition.* .

Display Condition
Normal Very Coarse Coarse Medium Fine Very Fine
Lexical Frequency
High Low High Low High Low High Low High Low High Low
First Fixation Duration (ms) 204 (6) 224 (8) 353 (16) 357 (17) 296 (10) 327 (17) 227 (8) 263 (9) 235 (8) 277 (10) 259 (7) 294 (14)
LFE 20 4 31 36 37 35
Gaze Duration (ms) 223 (10) 252 (10) 490 (28) 526 (39) 393 (23) 550 (46) 253 (9) 320 (17) 260 (11) 336 (15) 300 (14) 397 (33)
LFE 29 36 157 67 76 97
Total Reading Time (ms) 619 (36) 724 (37) 1539 (165) 1731 (187) 1054 (71) 1609 (156) 721 (57) 905 (63) 724 (44) 888 (82) 907 (127) 1061 (101)
LFE 105 192 555 184 164 154
Total Number of First-Pass Fixations 1.11 (.03) 1.17 (.02) 1.46 (.06) 1.46 (.07) 1.32 (.05) 1.66 (.08) 1.15 (.03) 1.26 (.05) 1.11 (.02) 1.33 (.08) 1.30 (.11) 1.40 (.08)
LFE 0.06 0 0.34 0.11 0.22 0.10
First-Pass Regressions (%) 7.4 (2.6) 12.1 (2.7) 18.9 (3.6) 25.5 (4.5) 11.7 (2.4) 15.4 (2.5) 10.3 (2.2) 10.9 (2.5) 8.9 (1.8) 7.5 (2.3) 7.7 (2.2) 6.1 (1.4)
LFE 4.7 6.6 5.1 0.6 −1.4 −1.6
Skipping (%) 20.0 (4.0) 7.9 (1.9) 22.1 (5.0) 18.8 (4.1) 6.3 (1.6) 2.5 (1.1) 9.2 (2.0) 7.1 (1.8) 6.7 (2.4) 7.9 (1.7) 4.2 (1.3) 4.6 (1.3)
LFE −12.1 −3.3 −3.8 −2.1 1.2 0.4
Landing Position (Characters) 2.4 (.1) 2.2 (.1) 1.9 (.1) 1.9 (.1) 2.2 (.1) 1.8 (.1) 2.5 (.1) 2.2 (.1) 2.3 (.1) 2.2 (.1) 2.4 (.1) 2.1 (.1)
LFE .2 .0 .4 .3 .1 .3
*

LFE = Lexical Frequency Effect. Standard Errors are provided in parentheses.