ABSTRACT
This chapter describes information search from a "convenient viewing" position. It describes the necessity for a subsequent fixation following an initial fixation at the beginning of a long word leading to two short fixations at either end of a long word, while only a single longer fixation is needed if the eye lands within the convenient viewing position where the entire word can be perceived. The convenient viewing position idea predicts that a short fixation should be made, and then the eye should regress to near the beginning of the region and make another short fixation. A prediction made by the convenient viewing position idea is that for long words, long fixation durations should be followed by large saccades leading out of the word. Confirmation of the convenient viewing position idea occurs when a sentence is specially shifted during an eye movement. In this experiment, subjects read sentences of diverse structure.
