Miellet, Sebastien O'Donnell, Patrick, J. Sereno, Sara, C. 2009 Models of eye guidance in reading rely on the concept of the perceptual span—the amount of information perceived during a single eye fixation, which is considered to be a consequence of visual and attentional constraints. To directly investigate attentional mechanisms underlying the perceptual span, we implemented a new reading paradigm—parafoveal magnification (PM)— that compensates for how visual acuity drops off as a function of retinal eccentricity. On each fixation and in real time, parafoveal text is magnified to equalize its perceptual impact with that of concurrent foveal text. Experiment 1 demonstrated that PM does not increase the amount of text that is processed, supporting an attentional-based account of eye movements in reading. Experiment 2 explored a contentious issue that differentiates competing models of eye movement control and showed that, even when parafoveal information is enlarged, visual attention in reading is allocated in a serial fashion from word to word. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/301978 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/301978/files/PM_Miellet_ODonnell_Sereno_PsychSci_09.pdf eng https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9280.2009.02364.x info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Psychological Science. - 2009, vol. 20, no. 6, p. 721-728 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/159.9 Parafoveal magnification: Visual acuity does not modulate the perceptual span in reading. http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501