ABSTRACT
There are two persistent hypotheses that view eye movements as the mirror of memory. One, the construction hypothesis, is that eye movements play a role in the construction of memory images. The other, usually implicit, the scanner hypothesis, is that eye movements reflect the behavior of an internal memory image scanner. The implications of these hypotheses, if true, are enormous because they suggest that eye movements that are easily available can be used to study memory and thought processes and, in certain spheres of application, that eye movements may reveal private thought. For both reasons resolution of these hypotheses is of major importance.
