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Towards an easier way to measure the visual span

Author(s) -

Denis G. Pelli

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of vision

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.126

H-Index - 113

ISSN - 1534-7362

DOI - 10.1167/9.8.1002

Subject(s) - span (engineering) , crowding , reading (process) , measure (data warehouse) , stopwatch , observer (physics) , computer science , attention span , psychology , cognitive psychology , mathematics , statistics , neuroscience , cognition , civil engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , database , political science , law , engineering

Pelli, D. G. (2009), Towards an easier way to measure the visual span. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, May 9-14, 2009. Summary: The “visual span” is defined as the number of letters, in a line of text, that one can identify without moving one’s eyes. While reading, people advance their eyes by a distance roughly equal to the visual span, five times per second. Thus, the tenfold increase in reading speed during childhood implies a proportional increase in the visual span, and there are some data to support this (reviewed in Pelli & Tillman, 2008, Nature Neuroscience). In normal adults, the vi-

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