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Course Objectives

The course will review research on physicological and computational oculomotor processes related to reading starting from perceptually oriented processes, such as orthography and proceeding towards conceptual, cognitive processes, as well as sociocultural aspects in how humans have been reading and writing throughout the history. Accordingly, the early part of the course will deal with orthography, phonology and word identification processes at sub-word level and word-level. Then the investigation of eye movements will be introduced as a core methodology for studying oculomotor control in reading. The lectures will proceed with the investigation of several models of eye movement control in reading. Finally, comprehension at sentential and discourse level will be introduced by providing theoretical frameworks briefly and example studies to improve experimental skills of course students.