Task effects reveal cognitive flexibility responding to frequency and predictability: Evidence from eye movements in reading and proofreading

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 131; no. 1; pp. 1 - 27
• Main Authors: Schotter, Elizabeth R., Bicknell, Klinton, Howard, Ian, Levy, Roger, Rayner, Keith
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.04.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition; Cognitive psychology; Comprehension; Experiments; Eye Movement Measurements; Eye Movements; Frequency; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Language; Mental Processes; Predictability; Production and perception of written language; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Readers; Reading; Reading Processes; Spelling Errors; Task effects; Task Performance and Analysis; Word Frequency; Young Adult; Frequency; Reading; Eye movements; Predictability; Task effects; Intellectual flexibility; Human; Language; Prediction; Cognition; Experimental study; Eye movement

•Subjects read for comprehension (block 1) then proofread for typos (block 2).•Typos resulted in nonwords (e.g., trcak for track) in E1, or wrong words (e.g., trial for trail) in E2.•Frequency effects in error-free sentences increased in proofreading compared to reading in both experiments.•Predicta...