A word's predictability in its context has a reliable influence on eye movements in reading.
This article reviews the extensive literature that has investigated this influence, focusing on …

Reading research has long endorsed the view that words are processed strictly one by one.
The primary empirical test of this notion is the search for effects from upcoming words on …

During language comprehension, we routinely use information from the prior context to help
identify the meaning of individual words. While measures of online processing difficulty …

Scene perception requires the orchestration of image-and task-related processes with
oculomotor constraints. The present study was designed to investigate how these factors …

Although eye movements during reading are modulated by cognitive processing demands,
they also reflect visual sampling of the input, and possibly preparation of output for speech …

To comprehend language, we continually use prior context to pre-activate expected
upcoming information, resulting in facilitated processing of incoming words that confirm …

Readers' eyes often skip over words as they read. Skipping rates are largely determined by
word length; short words are skipped more than long words. However, the predictability of a …

Current models of eye movement control during reading make different predictions
regarding the possibility of parafoveal-on-foveal effects–ie whether the lexical properties of …

Prediction is one characteristic of the human mind. But what does it mean to say the mind is
a “prediction machine” and inherently forward looking as is frequently claimed? In natural …

Chinese words consist of a variable number of characters that are normally written in
continuous lines, without the blank spaces that are used to separate words in most …