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Reading and the split fovea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2004

Richard Shillcock ,
Scott McDonald  and
Padraic Monaghan
Richard Shillcock*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW, Scotlandhttp://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~rcs
Scott McDonald*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotlandhttp://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~scottm
Padraic Monaghan*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, CoventryCV4 7AL, United Kingdomhttp://www.warwick.ac.uk/~pssbab
*
rcs@inf.ed.ac.uk
scottm@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
padraic.monaghan@warwick.ac.uk
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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.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , August 2003 , pp. 503
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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