The effect of clause wrap-up on eye movements during reading

The effect of clause wrap-up on eye movements in reading was examined. Read ers read passages in which a target category noun referred to either a high typical or a low typical antecedent. In addition, the category noun was ei ther clause final or non-clause final. There were four primary results: (1) Readers looked longer at a category noun when its antecedent was a low typ ical member of the category than when it was a high typical member; (2) rea ders looked longer at the category noun and at the post-category region whe n they were clause final than when they were not clause final; (3) readers regressed from a category noun or post-category region more frequently when it was clause final than when it was not clause final; and (4) readers mad e longer initial saccades when their eyes left the category noun or post-ca tegory region when this word was in clause final position than when it was not clause final. The last result suggests that sometimes higher order proc esses that are related to making a decision about when to move the eyes imp inge on lower level decisions that are typically associated with deciding w here to move the eyes.