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Researchers investigating eye movements during reading often follow a strategy of letting theoretical considerations tell us what locations in text to focus on in analyzing the eye movement record. We attempt to draw conclusions about processing at these locations by considering results obtained with several different measures. Some of the measures we use are first fixation duration, gaze duration, probability of fixating a target word, number of fixations on a target word, length of saccades off a target word, and spillover effects (effects on words following a target word). We have argued in several places (Rayner & Pollatsek, 1987, 1989; Rayner, Sereno, Morris, Schmauder, & Clifton, 1989; Schmauder, 1991) that this strategy, as well as use of multiple paradigms to test a constant stimulus set, provides researchers with converging evidence and yields a more complete picture of cognitive processes operative during reading than that obtainable using either a single measure or a single paradigm.
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Schmauder, A.R. (1992). Eye Movements and Reading Processes. In: Rayner, K. (eds) Eye Movements and Visual Cognition. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2852-3_22
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