Eye Movement Control During Reading: The Selection of Where to Send the Eyes

Studies of eye movements during reading have provided much information about the moment by moment perceptual and cognitive processes that occur during reading. However, the validity of the claims made about these processes depends largely upon the correspondence of eye movement control and the processes under investigation. While there is certainly a sufficiently close correspondence between eye movements and perceptual and cognitive processes to reach broad conclusions, as a reader's eye movements are called upon to make finer and more complicated distinctions between explanations of perception and cognition, the limitations of our understanding of the link between the processes and eye movement control become apparent. Thus, it is necessary to understand which characteristics of eye movement behavior during reading are directly linked to a phenomenon of interest, and which are the consequence of other factors, that if ignored would cause misinterpretation of the eye movement behavior.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Kerr, Paul William

Contributors dc:contributor

• McConkie, George W.

• Education, Educational Psychology
• Education, Reading
• Psychology, Experimental

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9305577

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71924