It came to no surprise of his mother and father when Raymond Dodge decided he would study philosophy at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Raymond Dodge had the intentions of staying within the states and attending either Harvard or Columbia but was unfortunately rejected from both schools.
Erdman expressed to Dodge and a few other classmates his interest in having a Tachistoscope to help with his research on reading and perception.
With the help of other colleagues, Dodge built a Tachistoscope and began conducting research on the eye and experiments on reading.
These studies lead Raymond Dodge to identifying five types of eye movement including saccadic and pursuit, convergence, reflex compensatory and the backswing.
He also wrote many scientific monographs and papers on language, vision, eye movement, and dynamic psychology.