Eye-tracking evidence for benefits from linguistically-driven text formatting while reading

Linguistically-driven automated text formatting (LDTF) provides real-time cues to readers via line breaks and indentations to render the hierarchical syntactic structure of sentences visible to the reader. This new method of text presentation has been shown to improve reading comprehension for elementary-age and adult English readers; however, no work until now has investigated the cognitive underpinnings of this novel tool. The current study …