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¹School of Psychology, University of Southampton.

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Binocular vision significantly improves reading speed and reduces eye movement regressions. Restricting parafoveal text processing to one eye during reading is more disruptive than monocular foveal processing.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Vision Science

Background:

Reading involves both foveal (central) and parafoveal (peripheral) visual processing.
Binocular vision typically enhances reading efficiency compared to monocular (single eye) viewing.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether the benefits of binocular reading stem from foveal encoding or parafoveal preview.
To quantify reading disruption caused by monocular viewing in foveal and parafoveal text.

Main Methods:

Utilized a dichoptic binocular gaze-contingent moving window technique during an eye-tracking experiment.
Manipulated text availability (binocular vs. monocular) in foveal and parafoveal visual fields on a fixation-by-fixation basis.

Main Results:

Confirmed a robust binocular advantage in average fixation duration and reduced regressions.
Monocular foveal processing had a limited cost, but restricting parafoveal processing to monocular input was highly disruptive.

Conclusions:

Unified binocular input is crucial for efficient parafoveal text preprocessing.
The preview benefit of upcoming text is significantly impaired under monocular parafoveal viewing conditions.