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Huey[14] simultaneously developed a similar mechanical method to study the behavior of subjects reading an article in the magazine Cosmopolitan. By varying the distance between the subject and the text, he found that ‘‘the number of jerks was shown to be a function of the matter read rather than of the arc described by the eye’s rotation.’’ Although the temporal resolution of his apparatus was too poor to measure the speed of the eye movements, he conjectured that they may be so fast that ‘‘we really do not see foveally what we read except at the few points on the ordinary line where the eye pauses.’’