When universal visuo-motor mechanisms meet endogenous and language-related processes: Determining principles of eye-movement control in reading.

阅读是一项复杂的文化技能，在个人的日常生活中起着核心作用。它是通过我们的眼睛沿着文本的线条运动而被允许的，它依赖于感知和认知过程，以及与扫视编程相关的低级视觉运动过程。本研究的目的是研究视觉、认知和眼动过程之间的相互作用，以建立一个完整的、现实的专家阅读过程中眼动控制的模型，从长远来看，这将作为研究阅读障碍和阅读障碍的基础。已经提出了几个阅读时眼动控制模型，包括由德国合作伙伴开发的SWIFT；他们认为正在进行的认知过程是眼睛的主要驱动力。拟议的研究将把SWIFT的预测与其他认知模型（如E-Z Reader）的预测以及另一种假设眼动的空间特征主要受低水平视觉运动控制的模型的预测进行对比。该模型基于法国合作伙伴进行的研究，并将由法国和德国合作伙伴共同开发。模型测试将主要包括调查跨语言和阅读任务的认知和视觉运动变量对阅读中眼睛行为的影响的普遍性。将以法语收集眼动数据语料库，并将根据德国合作伙伴以及更大的欧洲项目中的其他合作伙伴收集的数据进行跨语言比较。

Reading is a complex cultural skill which plays a central role in an individual’s everyday life. It is permitted through the movements of our eyes along the lines of text, and depends on perceptual and cognitive processes as well as low-level visuo-motor processes associated with saccade programming. The aim of the present proposal is to investigate the interplay between visual, cognitive and oculomotor processes in order to develop a complete and realistic model of eye-movement control during expert reading that will serve, in a long term run, as a basis for the study of impaired reading and dyslexia.Several models of eye-movement control in reading have already been proposed, including SWIFT that was developed by the German partner; these consider that ongoing cognitive processes are the main driving force of the eyes. Proposed research will contrast the predictions of SWIFT with predictions of other cognitive models (e.g. E-Z Reader) as well as predictions from an alternative model which assumes that the spatial characteristics of eye movements are mainly under low-level visuo-motor control. This model is based on research conducted by the French partner, and it will be developed in a joint manner by French and German partners. Model testing will consist mainly of investigating the universality across languages and reading tasks of the effects of cognitive and visuo-motor variables on eye behaviour in reading. A corpus of eye-movement data will be collected in French, and crosslanguage comparisons will be conducted on the basis on data collected by the German partner as well as other partners in the larger European project.