...space computer-based learning text because the blank line helps the eye move quickly and efficiently from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, thus improving readability. Let us consider how people read text. They fix their eyes on a word or...

...also takes from 1/25 to 1/30 of a second for the eye to move from one fixation to the next and sweep from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. In normal reading the text within foveal vision comprises an area of seven to ten letter spaces. At...

...isolate the line you're reading from the lines above and below it. Each row of space guides your eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. If there is too little or too much space, you get lost along the way and have to work hard to absorb...

...line of words. We can easily make ourselves aware of the relatively large ga/.e shift we use to move from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, but the jumps among the words are perceived as being smooth. They are not. The reading eye movement...

...to piece on opposite sides; you can position, pin, and stitch all tour strips in one sewing, hopping from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. 32 Ci Continue to add white strips on the straight rows and blue strips on the diagonal rows. 7 Add...

...movement, the " fixations " or stoppages — about four or five per line — the rapid " Return-sweep " from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. " Regressive movements " may readily be observed if a passage of a not too familiar foreign language...

...or design a page format that makes the lines of type so long that you have a difficult time reading from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. In either of those cases we will both have the designer to blame for your unhappiness. The formatting...

...at rest, suffering only the fine constant fixation tremor; and only the backward sweep of the eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the next is regular and uninterrupted. (Duke-Elder, 1932, p. 610, original italics) 4.4. 1 The discoverers of...

...as we read. Do you tend to lose your place along the line as you are reading? Do you sometimes jump from the end of one line to the beginning of the next and land on the wrong line? These are good indications that you are moving your head as you read. Prop...

...earlier parts of a page (which do not occur very often) or when they program a return sweep of the eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. Where to fixate next There is relatively widespread agreement among researchers from different theoretical...