{"id":11410,"date":"2010-08-30T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T18:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2141"},"modified":"2010-08-30T20:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T18:36:41","slug":"eye-movements-reveal-readers-wandering-minds-kafka-too-engaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/eye-movements-reveal-readers-wandering-minds-kafka-too-engaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye movements reveal readers&#8217; wandering minds (Kafka: too engaging)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tIt&#8217;s not just you\u2026everybody zones out when they&#8217;re reading. For a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, scientists recorded eye movements during reading and found that the eyes keep moving when the mind wanders\u2014but they don&#8217;t move in the same way as they do when you&#8217;re paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>\t[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\tFour undergraduate students at the University of Pittsburgh volunteered for the project. Each one came to the lab for a dozen or more one-hour reading sessions of Jane Austen&#8217;s <em>Sense and Sensibility<\/em>, chosen because it&#8217;s &#8220;fairly easy but a little bit dry,&#8221; says Reichle. &#8220;We started with Kafka&#8217;s <em>The Trial<\/em>, but people found it too engaging.\u201d While the student read the book on a screen, a computer tracked their eye movements. They were asked to push a button marked &#8220;Z&#8221; when they noticed themselves &#8220;zoning out.&#8221; The computer also asked every few minutes if they&#8217;d just been paying attention or zoning out.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/index.php\/news\/releases\/eye-movements-reveal-readers-wandering-minds.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just you\u2026everybody zones out when they&#8217;re reading. For a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, scientists recorded eye movements during reading and found that the eyes keep moving when the mind wanders\u2014but they don&#8217;t move in the same way as they do when you&#8217;re paying &#8230; <a title=\"Eye movements reveal readers&#8217; wandering minds (Kafka: too engaging)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/eye-movements-reveal-readers-wandering-minds-kafka-too-engaging\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}