This special issue of the journal consists of articlesbased on talks by some of the invited speakers at theFourth Chinese International Conference on Eye Move-ments held in Tianjin in May 2010. Prior meetings ofCICEM were held in Tianjin in 2004 and 2006 and inZhuhai in 2008. Each succeeding conference has drawna larger group of participants from China and otherplaces in the world, and CICEM4 was a very successfulmeeting. At each of the prior meetings, a select group offoreign speakers were invited to present their latest re-search at CICEM and this was also true of CICEM4.More importantly, the number of Chinese presenters hasincreased with each successive meeting. The goal is tohold CICEM every other year and in alternate years tothe European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM).