TY - JOUR
T1 - Reading quickly in the periphery
AU - Berger, Tracey D.
AU - Martelli, Marialuisa
AU - Su, Michael
AU - Aguayo, Mauricio
AU - Pelli, Denis G.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - In the periphery, crowding obscures word content, yet somehow people still read quickly. To unravel this mystery, we measured reading rate, varying eccentricity, letter spacing, letter size, and word order. We find that when words are ordered, reading rate is independent of letter spacing; when words are unordered, reading rate falls at the small letter spacings at which crowding is expected. Word order compensates for the impoverished word content caused by crowding, enabling fast peripheral reading.
AB - In the periphery, crowding obscures word content, yet somehow people still read quickly. To unravel this mystery, we measured reading rate, varying eccentricity, letter spacing, letter size, and word order. We find that when words are ordered, reading rate is independent of letter spacing; when words are unordered, reading rate falls at the small letter spacings at which crowding is expected. Word order compensates for the impoverished word content caused by crowding, enabling fast peripheral reading.
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U2 - 10.1167/3.9.806
DO - 10.1167/3.9.806
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4243191488
SN - 1534-7362
VL - 3
SP - 806a
JO - Journal of vision
JF - Journal of vision
IS - 9
ER -