ABSTRACT
During the past 15 years, there has been considerable interest among experimental psychologists, educational psychologists, child psychologists, linguists, and others in the process of reading. In the past couple of years, two textbooks (Just & Carpenter, 1987; Rayner & Pollatsek, 1989) have surveyed research on the psychology of reading. In addition, numerous other edited volumes (e.g., Coltheart, 1987) have appeared that deal with the reading process. Although a considerable amount of information has been learned about reading since 1975, there are many gaps in our knowledge and understanding of the process of skilled reading. In particular, our understanding of moment-to-moment comprehension processes still seems quite limited.
