Reading and the split fovea

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (4):503-503 (2003)
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Abstract

We argue that models of reading should be based on anatomical reality, namely, the fact that both eyes are used in reading; and the observation that the human fovea is precisely vertically split, and projects each half of a fixated word to the contralateral hemisphere.

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