Reading Flashcards
When people read, their eyes __________
jump to different words
When English speakers look at webpages, there is a bias for them to focus on the ______ side more than the ______ side.
left side more than the right side
Fixations
the time spent focused on a location
The average fixation in reading is _________
250 ms
When each fixation, English readers extract information from:
4 characters to the left
14 characters to the righ
Around the fixation point, only ______ letters are seen with 100% accuracy
4-5 letters
Fixations can tell us about ______
processing difficulty - people fixate longer on harder words
Not all words are seen - about ______ of content words have fixations. Only ______ of function words have fixations.
80% of content words
38% of function words
Saccades
eye movements (the “jumps”)
Duration: 20 ms
About 10 letters in length
Regresssions
backwards saccades
In fluent readers, about _____ of saccades are regressions
15%
Left-aligned text:
lets you read fluently
Centre-aligned text:
makes you skip to different line-starting positions - slower to read
Right-aligned text:
makes you skip to different line-starting positions - slower to read
Justified text:
leads to uneven gaps between words, which disrupts fluent reading
