Understanding comics: a comparison between children and adults through a coherence/incoherence paradigm in an eye-tracking study

• Lorena A. Martín-Arnal ^[1] ; José A. León ^[1] ; Paul van den Broek ^[2] ; Ricardo Olmos ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

     Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] University of Leiden
• Localización: Psicología educativa, ISSN 1135-755X, Vol. 25, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 127-137
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5093/psed2019a7
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Comprendiendo cómics: una comparación entre niños y adultos a través de un paradigma de coherencia/incoherencia en un estudio de movimientos oculares
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  • español

    Algunas teorías sobre la comprensión narrativa visual acentúan la diferencia entre los patrones de comprensión lectora en niños y adultos ante la lectura de textos e imágenes. Este estudio se realizó para explorar las diferencias en los patrones de movimientos oculares cuando los niños y adultos leen diferentes historias de cómics utilizando un paradigma de coherencia/incoherencia. Un total de 63 participantes, 31 niños (de 10 a 12 años de edad) y 32 estudiantes universitarios de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, leyeron 20 historias de cómics, cada una de ellas con dos finales, coherente e incoherente. La duración de las fijaciones, el número de fijaciones y el número de regresiones fueron registrados en un Tobii x-120. Se aplicó un modelo de efectos aleatorios cruzados. Los resultados mostraron que los niños, a pesar de que obtienen un nivel de comprensión similar al de los adultos, muestran un mayor esfuerzo para alcanzar la comprensión completa de las historias, como lo indican el mayor número y tiempo de las fijaciones. Por otra parte, los resultados tampoco detectan diferencias significativas entre el patrón de movimientos oculares del peak y del release entre los dos grupos estudiados, por lo que ambos componentes de la gramática narrativa visual se consideran igualmente relevantes en la comprensión de comics.

  • English

    Theories about visual narrative understanding accentuate the difference between patterns of reading comprehension in children and adults when they read text and images. This study was conducted to explore the differences in eye movement patterns when children and adults read different comic stories using a coherence/incoherence paradigm. A total of 63 participants, 31 children (10-12 years old) and 32 undergraduate university students from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, read 20 comic stories, each of them with both coherent and incoherent versions, for the two ending frames. Fixation durations, number of fixations, and number of regressions were recorded by an eye-tracker, Tobii x-120. A crossed random effects model was applied. Results showed that even though children reach a similar level of understanding than adults they spend more time and have longer fixations than adults, showing more effort to reach the whole comprehension of the stories. Besides, results do not detect significant differences between eye movements’ patterns in peak and release for the two groups studied, and therefore both components of the visual narrative grammar are considered equally relevant in the understanding of comics.

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