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.