Eye movements and mental imagery during reading of literary texts in different narrative styles

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=guKS3wQ97h" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=guKS3wQ97h</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.16910/jemr.13.3.3" target="_blank" >10.16910/jemr.13.3.3</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Eye movements and mental imagery during reading of literary texts in different narrative styles

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Based on Kuzmičová&apos;s (2014) phenomenological typology of narrative styles, we studied the specific contributions of mental imagery to literary reading experience and to reading behavior by combining questionnaires with eye-tracking methodology. Specifically, we focused on the two main categories in Kuzmičová&apos;s (2014) typology, i.e., texts dominated by an &quot;enactive&quot; style, and texts dominated by a &quot;descriptive&quot; style. &quot;Enactive&quot; style texts render characters interacting with their environment, and &quot;descriptive&quot; style texts render environments dissociated from human action. The quantitative analyses of word category distributions of two dominantly enactive and two dominantly descriptive texts indicated significant differences especially in the number of verbs, with more verbs in enactment compared to descriptive texts. In a second study, participants read two texts (one theoretically cueing descriptive imagery, the other cueing enactment imagery) while their eye movements were recorded. After reading, participants completed questionnaires assessing aspects of the reading experience generally, as well as their text-elicited mental imagery specifically. Results show that readers experienced more difficulties conjuring up mental images during reading descriptive style texts and that longer fixation duration on words were associated with enactive style text. We propose that enactive style involves more imagery processes which can be reflected in eye movement behavior.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Eye movements and mental imagery during reading of literary texts in different narrative styles

Popis výsledku anglicky

Based on Kuzmičová&apos;s (2014) phenomenological typology of narrative styles, we studied the specific contributions of mental imagery to literary reading experience and to reading behavior by combining questionnaires with eye-tracking methodology. Specifically, we focused on the two main categories in Kuzmičová&apos;s (2014) typology, i.e., texts dominated by an &quot;enactive&quot; style, and texts dominated by a &quot;descriptive&quot; style. &quot;Enactive&quot; style texts render characters interacting with their environment, and &quot;descriptive&quot; style texts render environments dissociated from human action. The quantitative analyses of word category distributions of two dominantly enactive and two dominantly descriptive texts indicated significant differences especially in the number of verbs, with more verbs in enactment compared to descriptive texts. In a second study, participants read two texts (one theoretically cueing descriptive imagery, the other cueing enactment imagery) while their eye movements were recorded. After reading, participants completed questionnaires assessing aspects of the reading experience generally, as well as their text-elicited mental imagery specifically. Results show that readers experienced more difficulties conjuring up mental images during reading descriptive style texts and that longer fixation duration on words were associated with enactive style text. We propose that enactive style involves more imagery processes which can be reflected in eye movement behavior.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Eye Movement Research [online]

ISSN

1995-8692

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

CH - Švýcarská konfederace

Počet stran výsledku

35

Strana od-do

3

Kód UT WoS článku

000580448800002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85090955027