The prospect of speed reading—reading at an increased speed without any loss of
comprehension—has undeniable appeal. Speed reading has been an intriguing concept for …

Reading research has long endorsed the view that words are processed strictly one by one.
The primary empirical test of this notion is the search for effects from upcoming words on …

Keith Rayner's extraordinary scientific career revolutionized the field of reading research
and had a major impact on almost all areas of cognitive psychology. In this article, we review …

The use of gaze-contingent display techniques to study reading has shown that readers
attend not only the currently fixated word, but also the word to the right of the current fixation …

A hotly debated issue in reading research concerns the extent to which readers process
parafoveal words, and how parafoveal information might influence foveal word recognition …

Semantic preview benefit in reading is an elusive and controversial effect because empirical
studies do not always (but sometimes) find evidence for it. Its presence seems to depend on …

During reading, some information about the word to the right of fixation in the parafovea is
typically acquired prior to that word being fixated. Although some degree parafoveal …

There is increasing evidence that skilled readers of English benefit from processing a
parafoveal preview of a semantically related word. However, in previous investigations of …

Online reading requires exquisitely precise coordination of the oculomotor processes
involved in extracting and integrating information from both the word currently fixated in …

Theories of preview benefit in reading hinge on integration across saccades and the idea
that preview benefit is greater the more similar the preview and target are. Schotter (2013) …