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Materials, data, and script files from the article Olkoniemi, H., Mézière, D. C., & Kaakinen, J. K. (2023). Comprehending irony in text: Evidence from scanpaths. Submitted for publication. **Abstract** Eye-tracking studies have shown that readers reread ironic phrases when resolving their meaning. Moreover, it has been shown that the time-course of processing ironic meaning is affected by readers working memory capacity (WMC). Irony is context-dependent phenomena but using traditional eye-movement measures it is difficult analyze processing beyond sentence-level. A promising method to study individual differences in irony processing at the paragraph-level is scanpath analysis. In the present experiment, we analyzed whether individual differences in WMC are reflected in scanpaths during reading ironic stories by combining data from two previous eye-tracking studies (N=120). The results revealed three different reading strategies: linear reading, and strategic and non-selective rereading. The readers predominantly used linear strategy for ironic and literal stories. However, the reading strategy for ironic stories were affected by comprehension and WMC. Results showed that scanpaths captured differences missed by standard measures, showing it to be a valuable tool to study individual differences in irony processing.
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