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News
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New article in The Conversation Canada: New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape reading
MECO collaborators Victor Kuperman, Nadia Lana (McMaster University, Canada) and Olga Parshina (Middlebury College, US) write about MECO for The Conversation Canada. Read the full article here.
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MECO papers in 2025 Google Scholar Metrics
Google Scholar’s 2025 Scholar Metrics on publications in the last five years list MECO papers in several highly ranked journals: Behavior Research Methods features MECO’s Wave 1 data on first language reading, currently the 35th most cited paper in the journal. Studies in Second Language Acquisition is the top ranked journal in the Language &
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Wave 2 data available and Wave 2 papers out in Scientific Data (MECO-L1) and Studies in Second Language Acquisition (MECO-L2)
Wave 2 reading data in first language (L1) and English as a second language (L2) in Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, English (United Kingdom), German, Hindi, Icelandic, Russian, Serbian, Spanish (Chile) and Turkish is now available! Data from 654 participants was collected by collaborators from 16 labs in 15 countries, bringing the
Events
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Latin American Conference on Eye Movements (LACEM)
The Latin American Conference on Eye Movements (LACEM) will take place this December 10-12, 2025 in Viña del Mar, Chile. As the first conference on eye movements in Latin America, the goal of LACEM is to establish an international platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration among researchers from diverse basic and applied fields, including psychology,
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24th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP2025)
The 24th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology will take place September 1-6, 2025 in Sheffield, UK. MECO Project Leader Noam Siegelman will be presenting “The Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO): Updates After Six Years of Collecting Eye-Tracking Reading Data Worldwide.” Learn more here.
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Victor Kuperman discusses eye movement control through a multilingual lens at the University of Turku
Earlier this month at the University of Turku, Victor Kuperman (McMaster University) highlighted how cross-linguistic comparisons provided by the MECO data can further our understanding of eye movement control during reading. Read the abstract below: The research field studying eye movement control during reading has benefited immensely from the series of comprehensive reviews that summarized