Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

Peripheral vision is fundamental for many real-world tasks, including walking, driving, and
aviation. Nonetheless, there has been no effort to connect these applied literatures to …

While online experiments have shown tremendous potential to study larger and more
diverse participant samples than is possible in the lab, the uncontrolled online environment …

This meta-analysis addresses two major issues of our time: the proliferation of technologies
and the aging of society. That is, we investigate how chronological age relates to technology …

Sensory systems continuously mold themselves to the widely varying contexts in which they
must operate. Studies of these adaptations have played a long and central role in vision …

Normal and abnormal differences in sustained visual attention have long been of interest to
scientists, educators, and clinicians. Still lacking, however, is a clear understanding of how …

The aging process is a complex biological phenomenon that results in the gradual decline of
physiological function and an increased risk of age-related diseases. While aging is a …

Current evidence suggests lutein and its isomers play important roles in ocular development
in utero and throughout the life span, in vision performance in young and later adulthood …

Relative to their young counterparts, older adults are poorer at recognizing facial
expressions. A 2008 meta-analysis of 17 facial emotion recognition data sets showed that …

Multisensory integration (MSI) is the integration by the brain of environmental information
acquired through more than one sense. Accurate MSI has been shown to be a key …