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Lieutenant Scott
I just don't have a problem reading long lines. And I do detest wasting space. Also if an article is long, why have it go off the page?Not especially. You just like to read long lines, is all. The three-word
chunking you noticed when testing yourself is quite normal.
I thought the centre of your eye had a MUCH greater resolution?It's a fairly common phenomenon, which also works with people and
objects in the peripheral vision field. We see a lot more than we pay
attention to.
I see.The opposite is also common: _not_ noticing something in
your field of vision. You're more likely to recall such
not-quite-noticed items when you are not fully focussed on your task.
Think "paying attention", and how complicated that is. Our senses
provide us with a vastly larger quantity of data than we pay attention
to. Well before the "paying attention" phase, that data is filtered in
many different ways. Conscious attention applies even more filters.
Training for any process, procedure, method, activity, etc, requires
learning how to apply filters so that distracting cues are ignored. When
you are well-trained, most of these filters operate below the level of
conscious awareness. Etc.