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Visual search patterns for multilingual word search puzzles, a pilot study

Word search puzzles are recognized as a valid word recognition task. Eye gaze patterns have been investigated during visual search and reading, but the word search puzzle requires both searching and word recognition. This paper will discuss findings from an eye-tracking study of word search puzzles...

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Autor principal: Beelders, Tanya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bern Open Publishing 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10644992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022899
http://dx.doi.org/10.16910/jemr.16.1.6
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description Word search puzzles are recognized as a valid word recognition task. Eye gaze patterns have been investigated during visual search and reading, but the word search puzzle requires both searching and word recognition. This paper will discuss findings from an eye-tracking study of word search puzzles in three languages, of varying fluency for the participants. Results indicated that participants employ a search strategy that is somewhat dependent on language fluency and varies from a rigid, structured search pattern to randomly searching for a target word. The majority of gaze measurements are not significantly influenced by either word length or fluency of presented language, although mean fixation durations are longer for shorter words.
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spelling pubmed-106449922023-03-31 Visual search patterns for multilingual word search puzzles, a pilot study Beelders, Tanya J Eye Mov Res Research Article Word search puzzles are recognized as a valid word recognition task. Eye gaze patterns have been investigated during visual search and reading, but the word search puzzle requires both searching and word recognition. This paper will discuss findings from an eye-tracking study of word search puzzles in three languages, of varying fluency for the participants. Results indicated that participants employ a search strategy that is somewhat dependent on language fluency and varies from a rigid, structured search pattern to randomly searching for a target word. The majority of gaze measurements are not significantly influenced by either word length or fluency of presented language, although mean fixation durations are longer for shorter words. Bern Open Publishing 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10644992/ /pubmed/38022899 http://dx.doi.org/10.16910/jemr.16.1.6 Text en Copyright (©) 2023 Tanya Beelders https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Visual search patterns for multilingual word search puzzles, a pilot study
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title_short Visual search patterns for multilingual word search puzzles, a pilot study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10644992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022899
http://dx.doi.org/10.16910/jemr.16.1.6
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