During reading, what distinguishes the end-of-line saccade from other inter-word saccades in terms of underlying mechanism?

💡 Explanation

End-of-line saccades necessitate a large, precise movement to the start of the next line, which involves resetting the oculomotor map because this requires overriding the default inter-word saccade programming. Therefore, oculomotor map resetting is unique, rather than increased predictability reduction which occurs during predictable word sequences.

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