Substantial progress has been made in understanding the mostly detrimental effects of
normative aging on eye movements during reading. This article provides a review of …

According to an influential account of aging effects on reading, older adults (65+ years)
employ a more “risky” reading strategy compared to young adults (18–30 years), in which …

An influential account of normative aging effects on reading holds that older adults make
greater use of contextual predictability to facilitate word identification. However, supporting …

It is well known that the Chinese writing system lacks visual cues for word boundaries, such
as interword spaces. However, characters must be grouped into words or phrases for …

Public Significance Statement The ability to segment unspaced text into words is
fundamental for reading in writing systems that do not use spaces to indicate the boundaries …

Older adults are thought to compensate for slower lexical processing by making greater use
of contextual knowledge, relative to young adults, to predict words in sentences …

Older adults experience greater difficulty compared to young adults during both alphabetic
and nonalphabetic reading. However, while this age-related reading difficulty may be …

We investigated the effects of word length and frequency on eye movement control during
Tibetan reading through two experiments. A preliminary experiment examined the predictive …

Research suggests that pattern complexity (number of strokes) limits the visual span for
Chinese characters, and that this may have important consequences for reading. With the …

Background It was well known that age has an impact on word processing (word frequency
or predictability) in terms of fixating time during reading. However, little is known about …