Peer-reviewed research
Eye movements in reading and information processing: Keith Rayner's 40 year legacy
Charles Clifton Jr. et al., Journal of Memory and Language, 2016 · DOI 10.1016/j.jml.2015.07.004
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- What it is
- A review by seven eye-movement researchers of forty years of Keith Rayner's work on how people read and process information, including the findings on children's fixations.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed and written by leading researchers in the field. It is a review of earlier studies rather than a new experiment, so numbers are the reviewers' summaries.
Facts taken from this source
- Clifton and colleagues' review of Keith Rayner's 40 years of eye-movement research says that when children read, they make more and longer fixations than adults do.
“when children read, they make more and longer fixations than adults do” (Section on children's reading (Rayner, 1986))