Abstract
This experiment investigates how information about six letter spaces to the right of the current fixation point is used to guide the eye in reading. It is found that low-quality cues such as word length can be extracted from this region sufficiently quickly to influence the size of the immediately following saccade. Linguistic processing of information from this region is also done, but only begins to influence the eye’s behavior at the next fixation point, where fixation duration is affected. Subsequent eye-movement characteristics are more strongly influenced, but this influence is diffuse, that is, spread over a variety of eye-movement parameters, and takes about 1 sec to develop.
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