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 …

Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism provides foundational
knowledge and hands-on advice for designing, conducting, and analysing eye-tracking …

The prospect of speed reading—reading at an increased speed without any loss of
comprehension—has undeniable appeal. Speed reading has been an intriguing concept for …

Different fields of research within the cognitive sciences have investigated basic processes
in reading, but progress has been hampered by limited cross-fertilization. We propose a …

The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to
linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of …

A hotly debated issue in reading research concerns the extent to which readers process
parafoveal words, and how parafoveal information might influence foveal word recognition …

The development of the gaze-contingent moving window paradigm (McConkie & Rayner,
1975, 1976) is discussed and the results of the earliest research are reviewed. The original …

Word identification is slower and less accurate outside central vision, but the precise
relationship between retinal eccentricity and lexical processing is not well specified by …

Many lines of evidence have revealed limitations of the human visual system, most notably
that only a portion of available information is processed in a single glance. A degree of …

Online reading requires exquisitely precise coordination of the oculomotor processes
involved in extracting and integrating information from both the word currently fixated in …