Keith Rayner was a cognitive psychologist best known for pioneering modern eye-tracking methodology in reading and visual perception.
Education
Rayner obtained his Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery in Psychology at the University of Utah and subsequently obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University with thesis titled The Perceptual Spanish and Peripheral Cues in Reading.
Career
In 1973, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Education, Psychology, and Visual Science at University of Rochester. From there, he moved to University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981. In 2008, Rayner moved to University of California, San Diego, where he held the position of Atkinson Family Professor of Psychology.
Rayner was the editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition from 1990 to 1995 and editor of Psychological Review from 2004 to 2010.
Honors and awards Rayner taught at the following universities: University of Rochester (Assistant Professor of Education, Psychology, and Visual Science) University of Massachusetts Amherst (Emeritus Distinguished Professor) Oxford University (Visiting Professor) Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Invited Visiting Fellow) University of Durham (Honorary Professor) Tianjin Normal University (Honorary Professor) University of Southampton (Honorary Professor) University of Potsdam (Visiting Humboldt Professor) University of California, San Diego (Atkinson Family Professor of Psychology).