Spatial Coordinates and Reading: Comments on Monk (1985)
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- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
- Vol. 39 (4), 649-656
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14640748708401807
Abstract
Subjects are able to process some texts when they are presented, word-by-word, in a single physical location. As differential spatial information is not available in this task, Monk (1985a) argues that it need not be derived in normal reading. We suggest this conclusion is unwarranted, because subjects make large and very accurate regressive saccades to regions of previously fixated text. Without a representation of spatial coordinates this should not occur.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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