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== Review of Rayner and Castelhano "Eye Movements" by Simon Liversedge ==

This short review article is written in an informal way, presumably with a non-expert audience in mind.  As such, it does a good job of providing basic information from which further research can be undertaken.  I've no major criticisms, but there were a few points that I thought could do with reivision - I'll list these as I cam upon them as I read the paper.

Striclty speaking, the opening sentence is not correct (but I understand what the authors mean I think).  I'd suggest changing it to something like "Eye movements are a behavior that can be measured and their measurement provides a sensitive means of learning about visual processing".

Insert "psychological" between "about processes" in the next sentence.

I may have missed it, but I couldn't find Figure 1.

In the text starting "During the actual..." the digit "1" appeared after the word suppressed.  Should this be deleted?

For the bullet point starting "While it has..." maybe cite a reference?  E.g., Liversedge, S.P., Rayner, K., White, S.J., Findlay, J.M., & McSorley, E. (2006). Binocular coordination of the eyes during reading. Current Biology, 16, 1726-1729.

For the section on eye movements and reading, delete "in reading" from the opening sentence (it appears twice).

For the Figure 2 legend, delete "a lot", add in "one" between "than" and "fixation", and change the phrase "some fixations" to "some saccades".

For the bullet point starting "A very important issue..." in the first sentence move the word "is" two words downstream.  Also, in the next sentence, should the comma come one word later?

I didn't understand the reference to Eye-contingent experimental paradigms.  Also, the digit "2" appeared in the next section - should this be deleted?

The final two bullet points in the section on Visual Search were not at all clear - I'd recommend these be changed.  The text talks about letters, but in principle, visual search could use distractors of any type.  The final point was related and did not make sense either...

Figures 6 & 7 were a little confusing to me.  I wasn't entirely clear what Fig 7 showed that Fig 6 didn't also show.  Perhaps one of these could be deleted, or instead it could be made clearer what the difference between the two is.

For the point about salience maps, I'd recommend that Findlay and Walker (1999) be cited (the authors may argue that this model was not a model of eye movements in scenes, but in my view, it was put forward as a general model of eye movement control with a salience map as a central component, and it could easily, therefore, be taken as a model of eye movements in scenes).  Also, I'd change the wprd "prominent" to "salient".  I'm not sure the two mean the same thing.

Figure 8 legend "on the right a different person is..."

Figure 10 legend "which ones did you miss".

Simon P. Liversedge

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