Problem by taking in more visual information in each saccade
Speed reading experts claim that they can work around this problem by taking in more visual information in each saccade.
This is unlikely for two reasons.
1. Processing more information per fixation is limited by the fact that our eyes are rather poor lenses. They need to move around in order to get more details. This means that eyes are physically constrained in the amount of information they achieve per fixation.
2. Working memory constraints are at least as important as anatomical ones. The brain can hold around 3-5 “chunks” of information at a time.
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