Recent studies of eye movements in reading and other information processing tasks, such
as music reading, typing, visual search, and scene perception, are reviewed. The major …

The EZ Reader model (Reichle et al. 1998; 1999) provides a theoretical framework for
understanding how word identification, visual processing, attention, and oculomotor control …

Scanning of the visual scene is an important selective process in visual perception. In this
article we argue that eye-movement data provide an excellent on-line indication of the …

Imagine the speaker of Spanish learning English. In a conversation or discussion, she hears
someone say,“The police officer was killed by the robber.” Although for the native speaker it …

While much work has been done investigating the role of context in the incremental
processing of syntactic indeterminacies, relatively little is known about online semantic …

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

An event-related brain potentials experiment was carried out to examine the interplay of
referential and structural factors during sentence processing in discourse. Subjects read …

Publisher Summary This chapter illustrates the use of reading time measures. The time
measures sum fixation durations to gain an understanding of the difficulty experienced while …

Sentences with temporarily ambiguous reduced relative clauses (eg, The actress selected
by the director believed that...) were preceded by discourse contexts biasing a main clause …

Different theories of syntactic ambiguity resolution argue for different sources of information
determining initial parsing decisions (eg, structurally defined parsing principles, lexically …