Eye movements and attention in reading, scene perception, and visual search

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 reviewed with respect to reading: (a) the perceptual span (or span of effective vision), (b) preview benefit, (c) eye movemen...

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Published inQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) Vol. 62; no. 8; pp. 1457 - 1506
Main Author Rayner, Keith
Format Journal Article Presentation
LanguageEnglish
Published Hove Psychology Press 01.08.2009
Subjects
Activity levels. Psychomotricity
Attention
Attention - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Eye movements
Eye Movements - physiology
Fixation, Ocular - physiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Language
Models, Psychological
Neuropsychological Tests
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Perception
Photic Stimulation - methods
Production and perception of written language
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time - physiology
Reading
Scene perception
Vigilance. Attention. Sleep
Vision
Visual Fields - physiology
Visual Perception - physiology
Visual search
Human
Attention
Cognition
Review
Eye movements
Eye movement
Scene perception
Reading
Language
Visual search
Vision
Perception
Visual attention
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Summary: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 reviewed with respect to reading: (a) the perceptual span (or span of effective vision), (b) preview benefit, (c) eye movement control, and (d) models of eye movements. Related issues with respect to eye movements during scene perception and visual search are also reviewed. It is argued that research on eye movements during reading has been somewhat advanced over research on eye movements in scene perception and visual search and that some of the paradigms developed to study reading should be more widely adopted in the study of scene perception and visual search. Research dealing with "real-world" tasks and research utilizing the visual-world paradigm are also briefly discussed.
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ISSN:1747-0218
1747-0226
DOI:10.1080/17470210902816461