演讲人Speaker：阎鸣(澳门大学 副教授) 

题目Title: Perceptual span in reading: A cross-language comparison.

时间Date：2023年 5月 5日

Time：下午 15：30 ~ 15：50

地点Venue：T2410

摘要（Abstract）：

During reading of continuous text, readers acquire visual and linguistic information from words beyond the currently fixated one. The spatial limit in reading, namely the perceptual span, is a foundation of reading and eye-movement research. The perceptual span in reading is typically assessed using the gaze-contingent moving window paradigm. In this paradigm, researchers create a visible area of texts that moves in synchrony with readers’ gaze. In other words, what is presented on the screen in every moment depends on where a reader is currently looking. In addition, the size of the visible area is experimentally manipulated to determine the smallest area to provide sufficient information to maintain normal reading behaviors. In this talk, I will review perceptual span studies on different writing systems and on different individuals, highlighting that the size of the perceptual span is not constant, but influenced by various factors such as visual complexity, text direction and participants’ reading skill. To sum up, these studies show that the linguistic environment shapes the way in which we read.

报告人简介(About the speaker):

Dr. Yan is an associate professor of cognitive and experimental psychology from the University of Macao. He started his undergraduate studies in psychology in 1999 and obtained Ph.D in psychology in 2008 at Beijing Normal University. Using eye-tracking method and novel statistical methods such as linear mixed-effect model, his research focuses on how reading varies across different writing systems (Chinese, German, English, Uyghur, Finnish, Korean, Tibetan and Japanese etc.) and how language specific and universal properties influence oculomotor control during sentence reading. So far, he has contributed 55 peer-reviewed research articles (on 50 of which he is the lead author) in the most important SCI and SSCI journals of the field. These articles are broadly cited for over 1400 times in Web of Science database and over 2200 times in Google Scholar database.