Magdalena Dorothea Vernon

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"In Europe, Magdalena Dorothea Vernon (1901 - 1991), at the Psychological Laboratory of Cambridge University, constructed a variant of Dodge's corneal reflex apparatus (Vernon 1930). However, it was not much used, except her (1931b) study of proof-reading. Her book 'The experimental study of reading' (1931a) presented an excellent review of both the tachistoscopic and eye-tracking studies of reading. Vernon, later professor of psychology at Reading University, became the British leading expert in the study of reading difficulties in children. Her 1971 book 'Reading and its difficulties: a psychological study' is her ultimate review of this field."

Citation from: Levelt (2013): A History of Psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomskyan Era, p. 471

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