The study of eye movements in reading.

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Abstract
A critical review of studies on eye movements in reading appearing through the yrs. of 1935 through 1944 is made. Techniques of measurement, analysis of the reading process, oculomotor coordination, factors in variability, heredity and certain environmental factors, eye movements in the reading clinic, training eye movements, and central versus peripheral processes are considered. Some significant conclusions are: The corneal reflection technique of photographing eye movements is the most satisfactory. Reliability of eye-movement records is satisfactory only when a long sample of reading is used. Under adequate exptl. conditions, eye-movement records are reliable and valid measures of reading performance. Regressions are legitimate and essential in certain kinds of reading. Rhythm is not characteristic of the eye-movements of good readers. Central factors of comprehension and assimilation rather than peripheral, i.e., mechanical factors, are dominant in determining reading proficiency.
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