# Eye Movements in Reading Words and Sentences **Abstract:** Word recognition processes seem to be reflected quite straightforwardly in the eye movement record. In contrast, eye movements seem to reflect sentence comprehension processes in a more varied fashion. We briefly review the major word identification factors that affect eye movements and describe the role these eye movement phenomena have played in developing theories of eye movements in reading. We tabulate and summarize one hundred reports of how syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and world-knowledge factors affect eye movements during reading in an initial attempt to identify order in how different types of challenges to comprehension are reflected in eye movements. Authors' address: Department of Psychology University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 USA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] **Authors:** [[Clifton, Staub, Rayner]]