School; a magazine devoted to elementary and secondary education . t the first pause comes nearer the beginning ofthe lin e than the final pause does to the end of the line. The rest of the linemust be mentally supplied. The mind anticipates the rest of the thoughtfrom that already gained. (c) Here is positive proof that reading does go on by other means thanthe recognition of letters. 5. There is a tendency to fall into a rhythmical recurrence of the samenumber of pauses per li e even to the extent of the pauses having auniform time distribution. (a) Such a condition is more apt to arise when
School; a magazine devoted to elementary and secondary education . t the first pause comes nearer the beginning ofthe lin e than the final pause does to the end of the line. The rest of the linemust be mentally supplied. The mind anticipates the rest of the thoughtfrom that already gained. (c) Here is positive proof that reading does go on by other means thanthe recognition of letters. 5. There is a tendency to fall into a rhythmical recurrence of the samenumber of pauses per li e even to the extent of the pauses having auniform time distribution. (a) Such a condition is more apt to arise when the matter read is easyand familiar. 6. Time of pause : time of forward movement :: 1: 4. (a) During \ of all the time spent in reading the eye is actually at one realises, therefore, the rapid rate at which the discrete letters ofthe printed page strike upon the retina of the eye one sees how impossible it isfor significant stimidation to take place during the actual eye movement,{b) In this connection recall the Law of Fusion of Visual Images. [loll. Specimen Curve of Spark RecordReproduced by special permission of the Macmillan Co. of Canada. [This reproduction, cut by a careful engraver upon a block on whichthe original tracing had been photographed, shows with great accuracythe sort of record from which the times of the eye movements have beendetermined. The chief difference between the original and the repro-duction is in the breadth of the horizontal lines which are finer in theoriginal. The curve shows the movements of the eye in reading six lines, pre-ceded and followed by two free movements of the eye each way, inwhich it was swept from one end of the line to the o her, the begin-ning and end alone being fixated. The broad vertical lines and theround blurs in the reading indicate pauses in the eyes movements, thesuccessive sparks knocking the soot away from a considerable small dots standing alone or like beads upon the horizontal lines,show the p
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