Both lexical and non-lexical characters are processed during saccadic eye movements.

On average our eyes make 3-5 saccadic movements per second when we read, although their neural mechanism is still unclear. It is generally thought that saccades help redirect the retinal fovea to specific characters and words but that actual discrimination of information only occurs during periods o...

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Main Authors: Hao Zhang, Hong-Mei Yan, Keith M Kendrick, Chao-Yi Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3460897?pdf=render