Co-registration of eye movements and neuroimaging for studying contextual predictions in natural reading

Nicole A. Himmelstoss*, Sarah Schuster, Florian Hutzler, Rosalyn Moran, Stefan Hawelka

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Abstract

Sixteen years ago, Sereno and Rayner (2003. Measuring word recognition in reading: eye movements and event-related potentials. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(11), 489–493) illustrated how “by means of review and comparison” eye movement (EM) and event-related potential (ERP) studies may advance our understanding of visual word recognition. Attempts to simultaneously record EMs and ERPs soon followed. Recently, this co-registration approach has also been transferred to fMRI and oscillatory EEG. With experimental settings close to natural reading, co-registration enables us to directly integrate insights from EM and neuroimaging studies. This should extend current experimental paradigms by moving the field towards studying sentence-level processing including effects of context and parafoveal preview. This article will introduce the basic principles and applications of co-registration and selectively review how this approach may shed light on one of the most controversially discussed issues in reading research, contextual predictions in online language processing.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)595–612
Number of pages18
JournalLanguage, Cognition and Neuroscience
Volume35
Issue number5
Early online date16 May 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jun 2020

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© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

  • Co-registration
  • contextual predictions
  • eye movements
  • fixation-related
  • natural reading
  • neuroimaging

Fields of Science and Technology Classification 2012

  • 501 Psychology

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