Extraction of information to the left of the fixated word in reading

The present experiment used 2 different eye-contingent display change techn iques to determine whether information is extracted from English text even when it is to the left of the currently fixated word. Preview display chang es were during the 1st saccade entering the target word region, whereas pos tview display changes were during the ist saccade leaving that region. Prev iews and postviews were either identical, related, or unrelated to the targ et word. "Wrong" information in the target-word region affected reading eve n when that information was seen only after readers were fixating to the ri ght of that region: When readers skipped the target word, such information caused readers to regress to the target word more; when readers initially f ixated the target word, such information increased "2nd-pass" processing ti me on the target region. The data suggest that renders often still attend t o a word after it is skipped and that when readers fixate a word, they occa sionally attend to the word after they have begun to fixate the next word.