Repository logo
HARVEST
 

Effects of central vs. peripheral attentional-oculomotor exercise on lexical processing

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorKress, Shaylyn
dc.contributor.authorcaron, Scott
dc.contributor.authorNeudorf, Josh
dc.contributor.authorBorowsky, Branden
dc.contributor.authorBorowsky, Ron
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-14T07:14:33Z
dc.date.available2025-02-14T07:14:33Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-18
dc.descriptionCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.description.abstractPast research from our lab has suggested visual demands in video games serve to exercise attentional-oculomotor (A-O) processing in a manner beneficial to reading. However, testing the effect of video games on reading typically requires long timeframes (e.g., multiweek training or years of accumulated video game experience). The current study manipulated within-experiment peripheral and central demands to evaluate the effects of A-O exercise on task performance. Our study included two tasks: an orthographic lexical decision task (OLDT), designed to optimise orthographic lexical processing, and a novel graphic-based health bar decision task (HBDT). In Experiment 1, the stimuli were presented centrally in one block and peripherally in another block to manipulate A-O exercise. We observed greater improvements in the peripheral-first than the central-first group, particularly for the OLDT. In Experiments 2 and 3, we focused on the OLDT, with the HBDT serving as the A-O exercise task, and observed improvements in both centrally and peripherally trained participants. We additionally observed, through analyses of word and bigram frequency, a double dissociation, whereby increased target word frequency was associated with faster target reaction times and improved error rates, whereas increased foil bigram frequency was associated with slower foil reaction times and worse error rates. Taken together, the experiments demonstrate a mechanism beyond simple task learning that drives reading improvements, and A-O exercise, even if movements are small, appears to play a role in the improvements observed. We suggest future research should further develop this paradigm and examine its utility for reading remediation in dyslexia.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship to S.K., Postdoctoral Fellowship to J.N., and Discovery Grant 18968-2013-25 to the senior author R.B.
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifier.citationKress, S., Caron, S., Neudorf, J., Borowsky, B., & Borowsky, R. (2025). Effects of central vs. peripheral attentional-oculomotor exercise on lexical processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241310440
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/17470218241310440
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/16573
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publication
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canadaen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/
dc.subjectVisual-spatial attention
dc.subjectreading
dc.subjectlexical decision
dc.subjectoculomotor processing
dc.subjectorthographic lexical processing
dc.subjectsublexical processing
dc.subjectword frequency
dc.subjectbigram frequency
dc.titleEffects of central vs. peripheral attentional-oculomotor exercise on lexical processing
dc.typeArticle

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
kress-et-al-2025-effects-of-central-vs-peripheral-attentional-oculomotor-exercise-on-lexical-processing.pdf
Size:
2 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.36 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Psychology
Health and Wellness