Starr M S., Rayner K
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dept of Psychology, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA
Trends Cogn Sci. 2001 Apr 1;5(4):156-163. doi: 10.1016/s1364-6613(00)01619-3.
For many researchers, eye-movement measures have become instrumental in revealing the moment-to-moment activity of the mind during reading. In general, there has been a great deal of consistency across studies within the eye-movement literature, and researchers have discovered and examined many variables involved in the reading process that affect the nature of readers' eye movements. Despite remarkable progress, however, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. In this article, we discuss three controversial issues: (1) the extent to which eye-movement behavior is affected by low-level oculomotor factors versus higher-level cognitive processes; (2) how much information is extracted from the right of fixation; and (3) whether readers process information from more than one word at a time.
