You Need Saccadic Eye Movements When You Are Reading This

question 42

Multiple Choice

You need saccadic eye movements when you are reading this sentence in order to

• A) focus on the consonants, rather than the vowels.
• B) increase the size of your perceptual span.
• C) decrease the number of fixations necessary for accurate reading.
• D) move your eye so that the next words are registered in the fovea.

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