Misinterpretations during reading
How, when, and why do readers sometimes form representations of text that do not match the structure found in the text? How do readers resolve conflict that may arise from forming such misinterpretations?
Contextual Influences on Sentence Comprehension
How does sentence comprehension change as a result of linguistic, communicative, and environmental contexts? Do propositions from previous sentences interact with parsing in parallel?
Syntactic Predictors of Text Readability
What makes a text “readable?” What does readable even mean? How can we develop better metrics of “readability” that take into account sentence-level complexity rather than just sentence length and word frequency/length?
Psychology of Reading Programming Languages
How do experienced programmers leverage their reading experience to read through source code for comprehension and for proofreading? In what ways does this reading differ from text reading? How can we develop educational interventions and troubleshooting tools that are psycholinguistically valid?
Jack Dempsey 