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 …

Reading of alphabetic writing systems, such as English, has been extensively studied and
most theories and models of reading are based on findings from these studies. This practice …

Eye movements are now widely used to investigate cognitive processes during reading,
scene perception, and visual search. In this article, research on the following topics is …

Chinese, Koreans and Japanese have a long and rich cultural history. In the past several
decades they have achieved spectacular economic success. Japan and China became the …

Native Chinese readers' eye movements were monitored as they read text that did or did not
demark word boundary information. In Experiment 1, sentences had 4 types of spacing …

摘要大量的认知科学研究表明, 词在阅读认知加工过程中起着非常重要的作用.
因此在阅读中一个重要的过程就是把词从文本中切分出来. 有别于英文等拼音文字 …

As Chinese is written without orthographical word boundaries (ie, spaces), it is unclear
whether saccade targets are selected on the basis of characters or words and whether …

Universality in language has been a core issue in the fields of linguistics and
psycholinguistics for many years (eg, Chomsky, 1965). Recently, Frost (2012) has argued …

The study of eye movements has proven to be one of the most successful approaches in
research on reading. In this overview, it is argued that a major reason for this success is that …

This article introduces a new corpus of eye movements in silent reading—the Russian
Sentence Corpus (RSC). Russian uses the Cyrillic script, which has not yet been …