Burke, D. T.; Meleger, A.; Schneider, J. C.; Snyder, J.; Dorvlo, A. S.; Al-Adawi, S.: Eye-movements and ongoing task processing. Percept Mot Skills. Jun, Vol. 96(3 Pt 2) pp. 1330-8., 2003.

Abstract: This study tests the relation between eye-movements and thought processing. Subjects were given specific modality tasks (visual, gustatory, kinesthetic) and assessed on whether they responded with distinct eye-movements. Some subjects' eye-movements reflected ongoing thought processing. Instead of a universal pattern, as suggested by the neurolinguistic programming hypothesis, this study yielded subject-specific idiosyncratic eye-movements across all modalities. Included is a discussion of the neurolinguistic programming hypothesis regarding eye-movements and its implications for the eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing theory.