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Is covert attention really unnecessary?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Alexander Pollatsek  and
Keith Rayner
Alexander Pollatsek
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 rayner@psych.umass.edu www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~rayner
Keith Rayner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 rayner@psych.umass.edu www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~rayner
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Abstract

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We are largely in agreement with the Findlay & Walker model. However, they appear to dismiss the role of covert spatial attention in tasks in which people are free to move their eyes. We argue that an account of the facts about the perceptual span in reading requires a window of attention not centered around the fovea. Moreover, a computational model of reading that we (Reichle et al. 1998) developed gives a good account of eye movement control in reading and would be unable to do so without relying heavily on covert attention.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 1999 , pp. 695 - 696
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press