📢 out now in CABN: Individual differences in subcomponents of the N400: Comprehension ability predicts contextual support effects while spelling ability predicts orthographic anomaly effects
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The N400 ERP component has been characterized as a response reflecting binding of semantic memory states to create a “multimodal conceptual representation” (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011). An assumption of...
How do we read faster than our brains process each word?
Out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, @lizschotter.bsky.social and I explore how co-registering eye-tracking and EEG helps solve this paradox by looking "beyond" the individual fixation to probe dynamic coupling between the brain and eyes.
This was a labor of love, and Brian was so fun and amazing to work with. Hope you and your students find it useful!!
Nothing will get me to cry in my office quicker than receiving some vintage books on eye movements from a colleague of Keith's who I have never met 😭 I love this community and I needed this gesture more than Dr. Flagg knows. ❤️
Nothing will get me to cry in my office quicker than receiving some vintage books on eye movements from a student of Keith's who I have never met 😭 I love this community and I needed this gesture more than Dr. Flagg knows. ❤️
📢 out now in Brain and Language! my lab's most recent ERP study on orthographic and semantic processing in the fovea and parafovea www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢 BREAKING! TiCS just published a paper by @lamalab.bsky.social and me that synthesizes co-registration (and related) studies of reading that resolve the apparent paradox that the eyes move faster through the text than the brain can understand it!
If the take-home message weren't so enraging, I could spend more time appreciating the power of this data visualization from NYT...
Co-registration of neural and behavioral measures is key in developing a holistic understanding of reading. However, researchers must study not only n…
Happy to share that Liz Schotter and I have just published a beginner-level tutorial introduction to eye-tracking-while-reading studies in Behavior Methods:
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Brian Dillon
Online Now: Looking inside and beyond eye fixations in reading
Co-registration of neural and behavioral measures is key in developing a holistic understanding of reading. However, researchers must study not only neural effects inside fixations, early enough to initiate saccade decisions, but also later effects that are linguistically driven. Furthermore, researchers must not only use co-registration to allow for naturalistic reading but also to look beyond individual fixations to examine the coupling between temporally extended neural language processing and saccade decisions. Such an approach has revealed that saccade decisions are triggered at an intermediate point of lexical processing, followed by complete recognition and integration of a word into its context. This account can resolve the apparent paradox that the eyes can move through text faster than the brain understands it.
