Speaker: Professor Simon P. Liversedge (University of Central Lancashire)
Abstract
Professor Simon P. Liversedge will present findings from two studies that have attracted a degree of interest in the field of Cognitive Psychology in recent years.
The first study (Liversedge et al. 2016) investigated reading in Chinese, Finnish and English (languages with markedly different orthographic characteristics).
The results showed robust differences in fine grained characteristics of eye movements between languages whilst overall sentence reading times did not differ.
They interpreted the findings to reflect universality in aspects of processing in reading. The study was criticised as being statistically underpowered (Brysbaert, 2019).
To address this concern, they tested 80 new subjects in each language (a large scale replication, Liversedge et al. 2024).
Unlike the original findings, the new analyses showed shorter total sentence reading times for Chinese relative to Finnish and English readers (probably due to Chinese cultural changes between when the original and current subjects were tested).
The remaining findings were consistent, and again, likely reflect universality in aspects of reading.
Professor Simon P. Liversedge will also briefly comment on the criticisms concerning statistical power that were levelled against the original article.
Liversedge SP, Drieghe, D, Li X, Yan G, Bai X, Hyönä J, (2016).
Universality in eye movements and reading: A trilingual investigation. Cognition, 147, p1-20.
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