REVIEWS SELECTED STUDIES in the area of reading comprehension in order to characterize the differential strategies that skilled and less skilled comprehenders employ. The research reviewed is organized into 3 broad components: 1) decoding, 2) assessing the meaning of single printed words, and 3) text organization processes or obtaining meaning from larger stretches of text. Results from various studies suggest that good and poor comprehenders differ primarily in the first and third components. Speculations are offered on the interrelationships between these components and their effect on reading comprehension processes.

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The Role of Eye Movements in Reading with an Evaluation of Techniques for Their Improvement.

A Comparison of Reading Comprehension Processes in Good and Poor Comprehenders.

Subjects read aloud 200-word passages of statistical approximations up to the 8th order. Their eye-movements were recorded together with a trace of the speech output. Speed of reading, using the syllable as the unit of measurement, increased up to the 5th order for slow readers. Fast readers, on the other hand, further increased their speed to the 6th order. This result had been predicted from a hypothesis that fast readers use contextual cues more efficiently. Measures of the material in the eye-voice span showed an increase up to the 8th order. Fast readers had a larger material span than slow readers beyond the 5th order, a result paralleling the differences in speed increase. It is suggested that the eye-voice span measured in time is dependent upon the chosen reading speed and the material span. From the eye-movement records there was no variation of the mean duration of fixation between passages, or between fast and slow readers. The average value was about 240 millisec. The number of both ...

The effects of context upon speed of reading, eye movements and eye-voice span

The relation between eye-movements and voice in the oral reading of good and poor silent readers.

Eye movements are particularly important in aeronautics where operators rely on numerous sources of visual information. Eye-tracking reveals what we are looking at, but also the physical and psychological condition of an operator. The human perception, and more particularly the vision, is a vector of errors well known in human factors (tunnel effect, eye strain, etc.). The eyes can help finding where the attention is focused (gaze position), how the subject feels (fatigue), and interact with a system by eye movements [1]. Ocular interactions meet the need that HOTAS commands in aircraft are complexified by the high number of buttons and complex multiplexing. Oculometry has thus become a flagship sector of aeronautical research to understand human limits and interact more naturally with the system. Current solutions are largely based on video-based eye trackers, but this technology has some drawbacks: vibrations in the aircraft, visual field obstruction, and infrared illumination are signifiant issues that prevent eye trackers from being operational.

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Eye movement detection in military aeronautics using EOG

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The Role of Eye Movements in Reading with an Evaluation of Techniques for Their Improvement.

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A Comparison of Reading Comprehension Processes in Good and Poor Comprehenders.

The effects of context upon speed of reading, eye movements and eye-voice span

The relation between eye-movements and voice in the oral reading of good and poor silent readers.

Eye movement detection in military aeronautics using EOG

The eye-movements of good readers.

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