Kliegl, R., Risse, S., & Laubrock, J. (2007). Preview benefit and parafoveal-on-foveal effects from word n+2. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1250-1255.
Abstract. Using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm with the boundary placed after word n, the experiment manipulated preview of word n+2 for fixations on word n. There was no preview benefit for 1st-pass reading on word n+2, replicating the results of K. Rayner, B. J. Juhasz, and S. J. Brown (2007), but there was a preview benefit on the 3-letter word n+1, that is, after the boundary but before word n+2. Additionally, both word n+1 and word n+2 exhibited parafoveal-on-foveal effects on word n. Thus, during a fixation on word n and given a short word n+1, some information is extracted from word n+2, supporting the hypothesis of distributed processing in the perceptual span.
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.5.1250
We also include an excerpt of the response to the initial review of the paper. This response contains results from the traditional F1/F2-ANOVAs.