Vertical perceptual span and the processing of visual signals in readingFootnote

Portions of the data were reported at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse in Minneapolis, MN, July 2006. The authors would like to thank Eric Raufaste and Brigitte Roc for their assistance with the programming and Robert Lorch, Patrice Terrier, and Keith Rayner for their helpful comments on previous versions of this article.

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