Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

Methodologies for comparing complex computational models of eye-movement control in reading: Just fitting the data is not enough


Ronan Reilly a1 and Ralph Radach a2
a1 Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland ronan.reilly@may.ie http://cortex.cs.may.ie
a2 Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Aachen, 52064 Aachen, Germany ralph.radach@psych.rwth-aachen.de http://www.psycho.rwth-aachen.de

Abstract

As the number of computational models of eye-movement control in reading increases, so too will their coverage and complexity. This will make their comparison and testing increasingly challenging. We argue here that there is a need to develop a methodology for constructing and evaluating such models, and outline aspects of a possible methodology.