Using virtual reality to study reading: An eye-tracking investigation of transposed-word effects

Jonathan Mirault (1) , Agnès Guerre-Genton (1) , Stéphane Dufau (1) , Jonathan Grainger (1)

1 LPC - Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive

Eye movements were recorded using a virtual reality (VR) setup as participants made grammatical decisions to sequences of words. Ungrammatical decisions were harder to make to transposed-word sequences (The white was cat big) compared with control sequences where transposing two adjacent words never produces a correct sentence (The black ran dog fat). Crucially, we found significant transposed-word effects independently of the order in which the two critical words were fixated (i.e., was before cat vs. cat before was), thus falsifying a reading out-of-order account of transposed-word effects.

Domaines: Psychologie et comportements

Jonathan Mirault, Agnès Guerre-Genton, Stéphane Dufau, Jonathan Grainger. Using virtual reality to study reading: An eye-tracking investigation of transposed-word effects. Methods in Psychology, 2020, pp.100029. ⟨10.1016/j.metip.2020.100029⟩. ⟨hal-02862183⟩