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Eye movements, the perceptual span, and reading speed

✍ Scribed by Keith Rayner; Timothy J. Slattery; Nathalie N. Bélanger

Book ID
111522228
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
287 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
1069-9384

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✦ Synopsis

The perceptual span or region of effective vision during eye fixations in reading was examined as a function of reading speed (fast readers were compared with slow readers), font characteristics (fixed width vs. proportional width), and intraword spacing (normal or reduced). The main findings were that fast readers (reading at about 330 wpm) had a larger perceptual span than did slow readers (reading about 200 wpm) and that the span was not affected by whether or not the text was fixed width or proportional width. In addition, there were interesting font and intraword spacing effects that have important implications for the optimal use of space in a line of text.

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The study of eye movements has a long and rich history in reading research. Indeed, some of the earliest experimental studies of skilled reading involved measuring eye movements (see Huey, 1908). Since 1975, there has been an increasing awareness that eye movements provide very important information