EUROCORES_ECRP1. Call_Eye movement characteristics of dyslexic readers

Reading is a central cultural skill enabling the pursuit of goals ranging from education to social participation. At the behavioral level, reading comprises alternations of eye fixations (ca. 200 ms) and quick movements of the eye (saccades; 20-40 ms). Visual (e.g., contrast), language-related (e.g., word/sentence difficulty), and oculomotor dynamics (e.g., saccade-accuracy limits) systematically modulate fixation durations and fixation probabilities. Computer programs simulate these effects for "easy reading" of normal adults. We will research new, much more complex reading dynamics with a three-pronged program. First, we collect new reading data according to a common protocol that will enable the analyses of the interplay of oculomotor, visual, and language processes and allow us to isolate language-dependent and languageindependent effects. Second, for the first time, computer models of reading will be tested in different languages and against each other. Third, the theoretical expertise of Individual Projects is linked to the collaborative research via associated experiments. These address, for example, differences between oral and silent reading, semantic associations in sentence comprehension, spatial coding of text material during reading, cortico-visual impairment and reading behavior, and dyslexic attentional spans for eyemovements in reading.