Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

Different fields of research within the cognitive sciences have investigated basic processes
in reading, but progress has been hampered by limited cross-fertilization. We propose a …

I will describe how orthographic processing acts as a central interface between visual and
linguistic processing during reading, and as such can be considered to be the 'mid-level …

This article introduces a new corpus of eye movements in silent reading—the Russian
Sentence Corpus (RSC). Russian uses the Cyrillic script, which has not yet been …

Reading research robustly finds that shorter and more frequent words are recognized faster
and skipped more often than longer and less frequent words. An empirical question that has …

We begin by presenting and examining relevant data in the literature on eye movements in
reading, from childhood to adulthood. In particular, we discuss the differences found in eye …

The effectiveness of tablet computers to supplement or replace paper-based text in everyday
life has yet to be fully revealed. Previous investigations comparing reading performance …

Most children across the world learn to read and write in non-alphabetic orthographies such
as abjads (eg, Arabic), abugidas (eg, Ethiopic Ge'ez), and morphosyllabaries (eg, Chinese) …

In this study, we present TURead, an eye movement dataset of silent and oral sentence
reading in Turkish, an agglutinative language with a shallow orthography understudied in …

This eye-tracking study establishes basic benchmarks of eye movements during reading in
heritage language (HL) by Russian-speaking adults and adolescents of high (n= 21) and …