We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

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 …

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 …

Keith Rayner's extraordinary scientific career revolutionized the field of reading research
and had a major impact on almost all areas of cognitive psychology. In this article, we review …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

We recorded event-related brain potentials (ERPs) while participants read sentences, some
of which contained an anomalous word. In the critical sentences (eg, The meal was …

Publisher Summary The two most robust findings in studies of eye movements and reading
are that (1) fixation time on a word is shorter if the reader has a valid preview of the word …

A century of investigation into the role of the human frontal lobes in complex cognition,
including language processing, has revealed several interesting but apparently …

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences describing events in
which an individual performed an action with an implement. The noun phrase arguments of …