Did Javal measure eye movements during reading?

Louis-Émile Javal is widely credited as the first person to record eye movements in read-ing. This is so despite the fact that Javal himself never made that claim but it is perpetu-ated in contemporary text books, scientific articles and on the internet. Javal did coin the term ‘saccades’ in the con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicholas J. Wade, Benjamin W. Tatler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2009-05-01
Series:Journal of Eye Movement Research
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Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2284