Eye movements as reflections of perceptual and cognitive processes (abstract only)

Some historical issues regarding the use of eye movements to study cognitive processes will initially be discussed. The development of eye contingent display change experiments will be reviewed and examples will be presented regarding how the development of the technique provided answers to interesting questions. For the most part, examples will be taken from the psychology of reading, but other tasks will also be discussed. More recently, sophisticated models of eye movement control in the context of reading have been developed, and these models will be discussed. Some thoughts on future directions of eye movement research will also be presented.