Eye Movements in Reading: A Tutorial Review

Abstract

Following the seminal work by Huey and his contemporaries, eye movements in reading were intensively studied by Buswell, Tinker, and others. While a great deal of information was gathered about eye movements during this period, in retrospect the work does not seem as informative about basic processes in reading as does the earlier work. Undoubtedly, the fact that Buswell and Tinker worked during the peak of the behaviourist era in experimental psychology contributes to this feeling. Tinker’s (1958) final review in the Psychological Bulletin ends on the rather pessimistic note that almost everything that could be learned about reading from eye movements (given the state of technology at the time) had been discovered. Perhaps that opinion was widely held, because between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s little research on eye movements and reading was undertaken.

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