Co-registered natural story reading
What do people’s brains do if we let them read as they normally would?
Most studies of reading use experiments that employ contrived sentences designed to see how people react to bizarre input and/or use the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) paradigm which presents one word at a time at the same location. While these can be informative, neither addresses how people actually read under normal circumstances. The main goal of this project is to produce a co-registered eye-tracking and EEG dataset of people reading a real text (in this case, several chapters of a novel), under naturalistic conditions. While this can help answer some of our own research questions, it can also serve as a resource to others who want to test out their own predictions about language processing in a natural setting without having to design an experiment and collect their own data.