Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Literacy has many obvious benefits: it exposes the reader to a wealth of new information and
enhances syntactic knowledge. However, we argue that literacy has an additional, often …

Eye movements are now widely used to investigate cognitive processes during reading,
scene perception, and visual search. In this article, research on the following topics is …

Young adult and older readers' eye movements were recorded as they read sentences
containing target words that varied in frequency or predictability. In addition, half of the …

This study is a large-scale exploration of the influence that individual reading skills exert on
eye-movement behavior in sentence reading. Seventy-one non-college-bound 16–24 year …

In the rapidly changing circumstances of our increasingly digital world, reading is also
becoming an increasingly digital experience: electronic books (e-books) are now outselling …

Compared to skilled adult readers, children typically make more fixations that are longer in
duration, shorter saccades, and more regressions, thus reading more slowly (Blythe & …

Models of eye movement control in reading and their impact on the field are discussed.
Differences between the EZ Reader model and the SWIFT model are reviewed, as are …

The neural substrates of eye movement measures are largely known. Therefore,
measurement of eye movements in psychiatric disorders may provide insight into the …

The size of the perceptual span (or the span of effective vision) in older readers was
examined with the moving window paradigm (GW McConkie & K. Rayner, 1975). Two …