Both Lexical and Non-Lexical Characters Are Processed during Sac...

On average our eyes make 3&ndash;5 saccadic movements per second when we read, although their neural mechanism is still<br> unclear. It is generally thought that saccades help redirect the retinal fovea to specific characters and words but that actual<br> discrimination of information only occurs during periods of fixation. Indeed, it has been proposed that there is active and<br> selective suppression of information processing during saccades to avoid experience of blurring due to the hig