Research Interests for Gary Feng

Research Interests: Reading Development; Cognition and Language, Eye movements

Psychology of reading, development of reading skills, and cross-cultural issues in education. his current research focuses on (a) modeling eye-movement programming during reading and using eye movements to detect reading difficulties; (b) how children learn spelling-sound correspondences; and (c) learning to read in different writing systems, such as English and Chinese.

Representative Publications
  1. Feng, G., Reading Eye Movements as Time-series Random Variables: A Stochastic Model, Cognitive Systems Research, vol. 7 no. 1 (2006), pp. 70-95.
  2. G. Feng, Orthography and Eye Movements: The Paraorthographic Linkage Hypothesis, in Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Eye Movements, edited by K. Rayner, D. Shen, X. Bai, & G. Yan (in press), Psychology Press.
  3. Feng, G., From Eye Movement to Cognition: Toward a General Framework of Inference, Psychometrika, vol. 68 (2003), pp. 551-556.
  4. Feng, G., Eye movements in Chinese reading, in Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Vol. 1: Chinese Psycholinguistics, edited by P. Li, et al. (2006), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.
  5. Feng, G., Miller, K., Shu, H., & Zhang, H., Rowed to recovery: The use of phonological and orthographic information in reading Chinese and English, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 27 (2001), pp. 1079-1100.