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T1 Attentional distribution and semantic parafoveal processing in natural reading
A1 Antúnez García, Martín
K1 Psicología experimental
AB The current thesis aims to increase the current knowledge about how we can access to themeaning of parafoveal words and the role of individual differences in visual attentionaldistribution of readers over semantic parafoveal processing. The thesis starts by providing atheoretical background of reading and parafoveal perception, focusing on semantic parafovealprocessing. The initial theoretical chapters also cover the role of individual differences ofreaders in reading, focusing mainly on attentional distribution and the perceptual span. Aninformative section of the co-registration technique of EEG and EM is also provided, to betterunderstand the avantages and limitations of the chosen technique of this thesis. The three aimsand hyptheses of the current work are also showed and discussed. As the reader will see, ourstudies aimed to obtain neurological markers of semantic parafoveal processing in artifitial and,more importantly, ecologically valid scenarios of natural reading. The next step was to explorehow these neurological markers are modulated by individual differences in the ability ofreaders to distribute their attentional resources across the visual field, highlighting theimportance of considering such variable when studying semantic parafoveal processing. Weshow here the three studies with all detailed information, including theoretical introduction,methodology, results and discussion of each sepparated study. We then conclude byinterpreting the results obtained in the three studies and highlighting the maing conclusionsextracted from the thesis. As it is showed in the final sections, the thesis fulfilled the presentedaims. The results obtained here allowed to obtain electrophysiological markers of semanticparafoveal processing in both artifitial and natural reading scenarios, which adds evidence thatthe meaning of parafoveal words can be accessed and used to modulate reading behaviour.Importantly, the results obtained showed that individual differences in attentional distributionof readers modulate such mentioned semantic parafoveal processing, highlighting theimportance of understanding the visual spatial distribution of readers during natural reader infuture research involving parafoveal processing
YR 2022
FD 2022
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UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/28293
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 18-nov-2024