diagram showing visual attention on various stretches of text. caption: Fig. 4 | Script physical properties influence attention and eye movements. a | The perceptual span is asymmetric toward the reading direction (rightward for English, leftward for Hebrew, down for Mongolian). b | In English, a saccade is planned to the preferred viewing location of the next word, via parafoveal information from the current fixation. c | In Chinese, a saccade is planned to a location that contains novel information that has not yet been processed. All example sentences mean ‘The student left the train’.

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allison (aparrish@friend.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 07:37:47 JST allison

sometimes when I tell my students that "reading is not passive, it is an active process," it seems like they think I'm making some kind of poetic metaphor, or deploying fusty deconstructionist theory. and maybe I *am* doing that, but I am also plainly stating that when you are reading, you are making your eyes move across the page in weird ways, and you have learned strategies for doing that

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