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Lack of semantic parafoveal preview benefit in reading revisited
No full textIn contrast to earlier research, evidence for semantic preview benefit in reading has been reported by Hohenstein and Kliegl (Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 166–190, 2013) in an alphabetic writing system; they also implied that prior demonstrations of lack of a semantic preview benefit needed to be reexamined. In the present article, we report a rather direct replication of an experiment reported by Rayner, Balota, and Pollatsek (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986). Using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm, subjects read sentences that contained a target word (razor), but different preview words were initially presented in the sentence. The preview was identical to the target word (i.e., razor), semantically related to the target word (i.e., blade), semantically unrelated to the target word (i.e., sweet), or a visually similar nonword (i.e., razar). When the reader’s eyes crossed an invisible boundary location just to the left of the target word location, the preview changed to the target word. Like Rayner et al. (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986), we found that fixations on the target word were significantly shorter in the identical condition than in the unrelated condition, which did not differ from the semantically related condition; when an orthographically similar preview had been initially present in the sentence, fixations were shorter than when a semantically unrelated preview had been present. Thus, the present experiment replicates the earlier data reported by Rayner et al. (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986), indicating evidence for an orthographic preview benefit but a lack of semantic preview benefit in reading English
Physiology of the antral pump and gastric emptying
No full textChristopher K. Rayner, Geoffrey S. Hebbard and Michael Horowit
The effect of high- and low-frequency previews and sentential fit on word skipping during reading
No full textIn a previous gaze-contingent boundary experiment, Angele and Rayner (2013) found that readers are likely to skip a word that appears to be the definite article the even when syntactic constraints do not allow for articles to occur in that position. In the present study, we investigated whether the word frequency of the preview of a 3-letter target word influences a reader’s decision to fixate or skip that word. We found that the word frequency rather than the felicitousness (syntactic fit) of the preview affected how often the upcoming word was skipped. These results indicate that visual information about the upcoming word trumps information from the sentence context when it comes to making a skipping decision. Skipping parafoveal instances of the therefore may simply be an extreme case of skipping high-frequency words
Gastrointestinal Motility Disturbances in the Elderly
No full textChristopher K. Rayner, Michael Horowit
Editorial: empirical pharmacological management of gastroparesis—a cautionary tale
No full textThis article is linked to Sanger and Andrews paper. To view this article, visit https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.17466.Karen L. Jones, Christopher K. Rayner, Michael Horowit
Isseki nichō (one stone, two birds): a dual incretin receptor agonist for type 2 diabetes
No full textCommentAbstract unavailable.Ryan J. Jalleh, Christopher K. Rayner, Karen L. Jones, Michael Horowit
Seize the whey! Whey preloads for control of postprandial glycemia in metabolic disease
No full textEditorial.
Published August 2023Tongzhi Wu, Christopher K Rayner, Karen L Jones, Michael Horowit
Rayner Whitely - 02
No full textPhotograph - Rayner Whitley's house being moved three miles east of Colinton, Alberta. The house is on a flatbed pulled by a truc
An interview with Christopher Butterfield
No full textOn November 14, 2011, we [Rayner and Yang] interviewed composer Christopher Butterfield in his office at the University of Victoria. He started his musical life at the age of eight as a chorister in King's College Choir, Cambridge, and decided he wanted to be a composer at the age of eighteen. He has always had an interest in performance, whether he was fronting a rock band, conducting, making performance art, or reciting sound poetry. As performers ourselves, we were especially interested in his relationship to performance and performers: In Montreal this fall, he reprised his acclaimed interpretation of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate, and in May he will be giving a recital of Erik Satie's Socrate in Toronto. In addition to performance, we asked him about literature, his own compositional language, and specifically his 2009 piece, Bosquet, written for twenty-two flutes and one cello.GraduateReviewe
Author reply to Hettiarachchi et al. (re Helicobacter pylori resistance in Australia…)
No full textLetter to the EditorJonathon P. Schubert, Paul R. Ingram, Morgyn S. Warner, Christopher K. Rayner, Ian C. Roberts-Thomson, Samuel P. Costello and Robert V. Bryan
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