We make available word-by-word self-paced reading times and eye-tracking data over a sample of English sentences from narrative sources. These data are intended to form a gold standard for the evaluation of computational psycholinguistic models of sentence comprehension in English. We describe stimuli selection and data collection and present descriptive statistics, as well as comparisons between the two sets of reading times.
Subjects were instructed to read the sentence as quickly and accurately as possible. As soon as they pressed the space bar, the fixation cross was replaced by the sentence's first word in 40-point Courier New font.