Eye movements during reading: some current controversies

For many researchers, eye-movement measures have become instrumental in rev ealing the moment-to-moment activity of the mind during reading. In general , there has been a great deal of consistency across studies within the eye- movement literature, and researchers have discovered and examined many vari ables involved in the reading process that affect the nature of readers' ey e movements. Despite remarkable progress, however, there are still a number of issues to be resolved. In this article, we discuss three controversial issues: (1) the extent to which eye-movement behavior is affected by low-le vel oculomotor factors versus higher-level cognitive processes; (2) how muc h information is extracted from the right of fixation; and (3) whether read ers process information from more than one word at a time.