posted on 2020-02-04, 15:17authored byKevin B Paterson, Victoria A McGowan, Kayleigh L Warrington, Lin Li, Sha Li, Fang Xie, Min Chang, Sainan Zhao, Ascensión Pagán, Sarah J White, Jingxin Wang
Substantial progress has been made in understanding the mostly detrimental effects of normative aging on eye movements during reading. This article provides a review of research on aging effects on eye movements during reading for different writing systems (i.e., alphabetic systems like English compared to non-alphabetic systems like Chinese), focused on appraising the importance of visual and cognitive factors, considering key methodological issues, and identifying vital questions that need to be addressed and topics for further investigation.
Funding
Economicand Social Research Council, grant number ES/R008957/1
National Science Foundation of China, grant number8177182
This research was funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Ulverscroft Foundation, Economicand Social Research Council, grant number ES/R008957/1, National Science Foundation of China, grant number81771823, China Scholarship Council scholarships to Lin Li, Sha Li, and Fang Xie, and a British AcademyMid-Career Research Fellowship, and a One Thousand Talents Visiting Professorship, to Kevin Paterson.