Book Chapter10.1016/B978-044451020-4/50022-0
Chapter 19 – SWIFT Explorations
Reinhold Kliegl,Ralf Engbert +1 more
- 01 Jan 2003
pp 391-411
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TL;DR: The SWIFT model as mentioned in this paper is a computational model of eye guidance in reading that accounts for fixation probabilities as well as various measures of inspection time in their relation to lexical processing difficulty.
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SWIFT is a computational model of eye guidance in reading. The model accounts for fixation probabilities as well as various measures of inspection time in their relation to lexical processing difficulty. A word is processed as soon as it is within the perceptual span, leading to a dynamic change in what is called “lexical activity” associated with this word. It is assumed that there is a maximum of lexical activity with each word, depending on its frequency and predictability from the prior sentence context. The SWIFT model can be used to predict typical measures used for the analysis of eye movement experiments with gaze-contingent display changes. The influence of preview manipulations and the mechanism of extraction of information to the left of the fixated word are qualitatively in good agreement with experimental results. These results underline the model's psychological plausibility and explain the way properties of the perceptual window can be thought to influence the dynamics of eye movements.
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The effect of word predictability on the eye movements of Chinese readers
TL;DR: Eye movements of Chinese readers were monitored as they read sentences containing target words whose predictability from the preceding context was high, medium, or low to demonstrate that Chinese readers, like readers of English, exploit target word predictability during reading.
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An anatomically constrained, stochastic model of eye movement control in reading.
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