Erik D. Reichle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

I am currently an associate professor of (cognitive) psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and a research scientist at the Learning Research & Development Center.  The main focus of my research is directed towards understanding how word identification, attention, and visual and oculomotor constraints jointly determine when and where the eyes move during reading.  I also use computational modeling, behavioral and eye-tracking experiments, and cognitive-neuroscience methods (e.g., ERP) to evaluate theoretical assumptions about reading processes (e.g., visual word identification).  I am currently on the editorial boards of two journals: Psychological Review and Visual Cognition. I am also currently a Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, in Delmenhorst, Germany, where I am writing a book on computational models of reading.


Representative Publications (available upon request)

  • Pollatsek, A., Reichle, E. D., & Rayner, K. (2006). Tests of the E-Z Reader model: Exploring the interface between cognition and eye-movement control. Cognitive Psychology, 52, 1-56.
  • Rayner, K., Reichle, E. D., Stroud, M. J., Williams, C. C., & Pollatsek, A. (2006). The effects of word frequency, word predictability, and font difficulty on the eye movements of young and elderly readers. Psychology and Aging, 21, 448-465.
  • Reichle, E. D. & Laurent, P.  (2006).  Using reinforcement learning to understand the emergence of  “intelligent” eye-movement behavior during reading.  Psychological Review, 113, 390-408.
  • Reichle, E. D., Pollatsek, A., & Rayner, K. (2006). Modeling the effects of lexical ambiguity on eye movements during reading. In R. P. G. Van Gompel, M. F. Fischer, W. S. Murray, & R. L. Hill (Eds.), Eye movements: A window on mind and brain (pp. 271-292). Oxford, England: Elsevier.
  • Reichle, E. D., Rayner, K., & Pollatsek, A. (2006). E-Z Reader: A cognitive-control, serial-attention model of eye-movement control during reading. Cognitive Systems Research, 7, 4-22.
  • Rayner, K., Ashby, J., Pollatsek, A., & Reichle, E. D. (2004). The effects of frequency and predictability on eye fixations in reading: Implications for the E-Z Reader model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 720-732.
  • Reichle, E. D. & Nelson, J. R. (2003). Local vs. global attention: Are two states necessary? Comment on Liechty et al., 2003. Psychometrika, 68, 543-549.
  • Reichle, E. D., Rayner, K., & Pollatsek, A. (2003). The E-Z Reader model of eye movement control in reading: Comparisons to other models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 445-476.
  • Reichle, E. D. & Perfetti, C. A. (2003). Morphology in word identification: A word experience model that accounts for morpheme frequency effects. Scientific Studies of Reading, 7, 219-237.
  • Reichle, E. D. & Rayner, K. (2002). Cognitive processing and models of reading. In G. K. Hung & K. J. Ciuffreda (Ed.), Models of the visual system (pp. 565-604). New York: Kluwer Academic.
  • Reichle, E. D., Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (2000). The neural bases of strategy and skill in sentence-picture verification. Cognitive Psychology, 40, 261-295.
  • Reichle, E. D., Rayner, K., & Pollatsek, A. (1999). Eye movement control in reading: Accounting for initial fixation locations and refixations within the E-Z Reader model. Vision Research, 39, 4403-4411.
  • Reichle, E. D., Pollatsek, A., Fisher, D. L., & Rayner, K. (1998). Toward a model of eye movement control in reading. Psychological Review, 105, 125-157.

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