Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

Reading of alphabetic writing systems, such as English, has been extensively studied and
most theories and models of reading are based on findings from these studies. This practice …

Scientific studies of language behavior need to grapple with a large diversity of languages in
the world and, for reading, a further variability in writing systems. Yet, the ability to form …

In the Chinese writing system, there are no interword spaces to mark word boundaries. To
understand how Chinese readers conquer this challenge, we constructed an integrated …

Research into second language (L2) reading is an exponentially growing field. Yet, it still
has a relatively short supply of comparable, ecologically valid data from readers …

The science of reading has made genuine progress in understanding reading and the
teaching of reading, but is the science of reading just the science of reading English …

We analyze if large language models are able to predict patterns of human reading
behavior. We compare the performance of language-specific and multilingual pretrained …

This article introduces a new corpus of eye movements in silent reading—the Russian
Sentence Corpus (RSC). Russian uses the Cyrillic script, which has not yet been …

The increasing amount of marketing content in e-commerce websites results in the limited
attention of users. For recommender systems, the way recommended items are presented …

Eye movements are one of the most fundamental behaviors during reading. A growing
number of Chinese reading studies have used eye-tracking techniques in the last two …