Reading Across the Adult Lifespan: Perspectives from Eye Movement Research

Dear Colleagues,

It is well established that reading typically slows down as we get older, with many of the systems underpinning reading (e.g., cognition, perception, and oculomotor abilities) undergoing substantial age-related changes. Eye movement research has been instrumental in understanding how and why reading changes with age, enabling detailed investigations of how the processes underlying reading differ across age groups.

This Special Issue, titled “Reading across the adult lifespan: Perspectives from eye movement research”, invites contributions that utilize eye tracking to investigate reading behaviour across the adult lifespan.

We welcome submissions of original empirical research, reviews, and theoretical or methodological papers that advance our understanding of age-related changes in reading through eye movement research.

We encourage submissions from a broad range of disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Studies that cover the full adult lifespan, including middle-age; young-old age, and older-old age;
• Theoretical or methodological innovations;
• Cross-linguistic investigations and investigations of understudied languages.

Dr. Victoria A. McGowan
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Eye Movement Research is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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