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Evidence for a global oculomotor program in reading

Abstract

Recent corpus studies of eye-movements in reading revealed a substantial increase in saccade amplitudes and fixation durations as the eyes move over the first words of a sentence. This start-up effect suggests a global oculomotor program, which operates on the level of an entire line, in addition to the well-established local programs operating within the visual span. The present study investigates the nature of this global program …

Authors

Al-Zanoon N; Dambacher M; Kuperman V

Journal

Psychological Research, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 863–877

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

July 2017

DOI

10.1007/s00426-016-0786-x

ISSN

0340-0727