School of Medicine, Biological Sciences, and Psychology.
Psychol Aging. 2013 Sep;28(3):789-95. doi: 10.1037/a0033328. Epub 2013 Aug 26.
Older adults (65 + years) often have greater difficulty in reading than young adults (18-30 years). However, the extent to which this difficulty is attributable to impaired eye-movement control is uncertain. To address this issue, the alignment and location of the two eyes' fixations during reading were monitored for young and older adults. Older adults showed typical patterns of reading difficulty but the results revealed no age differences in the alignment or location of the two eyes' fixations. Thus, the difficulty older adults experience in reading is not related to oculomotor control, which appears to be preserved into older age.
老年人（65 岁以上）在阅读方面往往比年轻人（18-30 岁）困难更大。然而，这种困难在多大程度上归因于眼球运动控制受损尚不确定。为了解决这个问题，我们监测了年轻人和老年人在阅读过程中两只眼睛注视的对齐和位置。老年人表现出典型的阅读困难模式，但结果显示，两只眼睛注视的对齐和位置在年龄上没有差异。因此，老年人在阅读方面所经历的困难与眼球运动控制无关，而眼球运动控制似乎在老年时得到了保持。
