On October 14, at 16:00, as part of Erasmus Days 2021, Diana Maiziere will make an online report at the Center for Language and Brain

October 14 at 16.00 (Moscow time) at the HSE Center for Language and Brain as part of ErasmusDays 2021 graduate of the Master's Program "Clinical Linguistics" (EMCL by Erasmus Mundus) Diane Maiziere will make an online report on the topic "Using eye movements to index reading comprehension ability"

EMCL graduate Diana Maiziere will make a presentation in which she will present a recent article entitled "Using eye movements to index reading comprehension ability".

The event will be held online on October 14 at 16.00 (Moscow time).

What will the report be about?

Reading comprehension is an essential skill in modern society, yet little is known about the processes that support successful reading comprehension. This complexity, which makes reading comprehension so difficult to define, also makes it difficult to measure. Indeed, studies suggest that reading comprehension tests do not all measure the same cognitive skills to the same extent (e.g. Keenan, Betjemann, & Olson, 2008). We investigated this issue by examining the degree to which three widely-used reading comprehension tests assess the same cognitive processes. Additionally, we investigated the potential of eye movements as an ecologically valid, online measure of reading comprehension. We administered three reading comprehension tests to 79 adults while we tracked their eye movements. We found that correlations between the test scores were significant but moderate, and that participants adapted their eye movement behaviour to the different comprehension tasks. We also found that the relationship between eye movements and comprehension scores differed between the three tests. These results have both practical implications for the use of reading comprehension tests in clinical and research settings, as well as theoretical implications about the relationship between eye movements and reading comprehension.