The binocular coordination of eye movements during reading in children and adults

Blythe, H. I., Liversedge, S. P., Joseph, H. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4325-4628, White, S. J., Findlay, J. M. and Rayner, K. (2006) The binocular coordination of eye movements during reading in children and adults. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989 doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.006

Abstract/Summary

Recent evidence indicates that each eye does not always fixate the same letter during reading and there has been some suggestion that processing difficulty may influence binocular coordination. We recorded binocular eye movements from children and adults reading sentences containing a word frequency manipulation. We found disparities of significant magnitude between the two eyes for all participants, with greater disparity magnitudes in children than adults. All participants made fewer crossed than uncrossed fixations. However, children made a higher proportion of crossed fixations than adults. We found no influence of word frequency on children’s fixations and on binocular coordination in adults.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/43407
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.006
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Institute of Education > Language and Literacy in Education
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