Keith Rayner

Keith Rayner (1943-2015) was Distinguished Professor and Atkinson Family Chair of Psychology at UC San Diego. As the world's leading expert on eye movements in reading, he pioneered eye-tracking methodology and developed the influential E-Z Reader model of reading.

His research examined:

• Cognitive mechanisms of reading in children and adults
• Eye movement control in scene perception and visual search
• Parafoveal processing during reading
• Attention mechanisms in visual cognition

Rayner published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and authored 'The Psychology of Reading'. His work received continuous NIH funding and prestigious awards including the William James Award, APA Lifetime Achievement Award, and FABBS Research Award.