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SUBMITTER: Bicknell K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7436780 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bicknell Klinton K Levy Roger R Rayner Keith K
Psychological science 20200227 4
Reading is a highly complex learned skill in which humans move their eyes three to four times every second in response to visual and cognitive processing. The consensus view is that the details of these rapid eye-movement decisions-which part of a word to target with a saccade-are determined solely by low-level oculomotor heuristics. But maximally efficient saccade targeting would be sensitive to ongoing word identification, sending the eyes farther into a word the farther its identification has ...[more]