Eye Movements in Reading Words and Sentences
Elsevier Science Ltd., Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2007)Abstract
Word recognition processes seem to be reflected quite straightforwardly in the eye
movement record. In contrast, eye movements seem to reflect sentence comprehension processes
in a more varied fashion. We briefly review the major word identification factors that affect eye
movements and describe the role these eye movement phenomena have played in developing
theories of eye movements in reading. We tabulate and summarize one hundred reports of how
syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and world-knowledge factors affect eye movements during
reading in an initial attempt to identify order in how different types of challenges to
comprehension are reflected in eye movements.
