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Integrating Text Across Fixations in Reading and Copytyping

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Visual acuity decreases sharply from the center of the fovea toward the periphery so that high-acuity vision occurs only in a relatively small retinal area, consisting of the fovea and the immediately adjacent para-fovea. Although the area of high-acuity vision is relatively small, it can be greatly expanded via the execution of eye movements. A visual area that is outside the range of high-acuity vision at one point in time may be analyzed via high-acuity vision, after an eye movement (saccade) to the area of interest has been executed. The goal of the present chapter is to examine the integration of text across saccades (i.e., successive fixations) and oculomotor control. Two tasks, reading for comprehension and the copytyping of text, will be considered. Relatively little work has been done in the study of oculomotor control during copytyping and its description will be sketchy.

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  1. Albrecht Werner Inhoff
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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    Keith Rayner

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Inhoff, A.W., Bohemier, G., Briihl, D. (1992). Integrating Text Across Fixations in Reading and Copytyping. In: Rayner, K. (eds) Eye Movements and Visual Cognition. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2852-3_21

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