Место издания:Science and Studies Foundation Rostov-on-Don
Первая страница:48
Последняя страница:57
Аннотация:The study focuses on the intergroup differences in oculomotor activity of
Russian and Japanese students in verbal search tasks. Subjects looked for English words in letter
matrices (15x15) which contained 10 words each, horizontally and vertically oriented. Matrices
were presented on a screen for 40 seconds. Each matrix was generated to present various
conditions on word frequency, length and emotional valence of the searched words. During the
search, the number of words found and eye-movement parametres were registered with SMI
RED250. Oculomotor patterns of Japanese students showed shorter fixations (185.6 ms vs 218.2
ms at F(1;205)=29.15, p0.01) and higher saccade amplitudes (10.64 vs 4.99 deg. at
F(1;205)=44.32, p0.01). Their visual strategy proved to be ambient and less efficient in this task
as compared to that of Russians. Though the students were at the same level of English
competence, the results can be explained through the differences in their linguistic experience.