Reading Words or Pictures: Eye Movement Patterns in Adults and Children Differ by Age Group and Receptive Language Ability

This study was conducted to explore the differences in the degree of attention given to Chinese print and pictures by children and adults when they read picture books with and without Chinese words. We used an eye tracker from SensoMotoric Instruments to record the visual fixations of the subjects....

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 8; p. 791
Main Authors An, Licong, Wang, Yifang, Sun, Yadong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 22.05.2017
Subjects
adults
eye movement
picture book reading
preschool children
Psychology
receptive language ability
preschool children
receptive language ability
picture book reading
eye movement
adults
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Summary:This study was conducted to explore the differences in the degree of attention given to Chinese print and pictures by children and adults when they read picture books with and without Chinese words. We used an eye tracker from SensoMotoric Instruments to record the visual fixations of the subjects. The results showed that the adults paid more attention to Chinese print and looked at the print sooner than the children did. The stronger the children's receptive language abilities were, the less time it took them to view the pictures. All participants spent the same amount of time looking at the pictures whether Chinese words were present or absent.
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This article was submitted to Developmental Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Reviewed by: Heather Kirkorian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Katharina J. Rohlfing, University of Paderborn, Germany
Edited by: Jessica S. Horst, University of Sussex, UK
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00791