Opera Medica et Physiologica

Psychophysiological Markers of Epistemic Evaluation: Evidence from Eye Tracking in Reading Familiar and Unfamiliar Words

Abstract: 

The article focuses on identifying specific eye movement parameters during reading unfamiliar words to study the formation of epistemic evaluation. The sample consisted of 40 students. 240 eye-tracking records were registered while the participants were reading 6 texts in Russian. The study revealed that the speed of saccades decreased, and the duration of fixations increased while reading an unknown word. Eye movements at first encounter of a new term may be an indicator of epistemic evaluation formation.