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Eye‐movements in dyslexic children: Comments on Pavlidis' reply
Author(s) -
Stanley Gordon,
Smith Glen A.,
Howell Edwin A.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1983.tb01854.x
Subject(s) - psychology , disadvantage , value (mathematics) , reading (process) , eye movement , cognitive psychology , dyslexia , position (finance) , social psychology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , statistics , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , neuroscience , finance , economics
One of the difficulties facing any attempt to investigate a research finding is to know what effect certain differences in procedure or equipment will have on the result. Our previous attempt at looking at non‐reading eye‐movements in developmental dyslexics (Stanley, 1978) produced essentially the same results as another research group (Adler‐Grinberg & Stark, 1978), despite considerable differences in procedure and equipment. With respect to Pavlidis' (1981 a ) work, we were somewhat at a disadvantage, in so far as his original paper does not provide the rationale now given (Pavlidis, 1983) for a number of procedural moves which might otherwise be considered arbitrary. While appreciating the value of having his position clarified for us in a way not provided by his previous publication, we would like to comment on a number of points he has made about our paper (Stanley et al. , 1983).