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IT seems likely that the improvements brought about by reading efficiency courses are largely due to such factors as increased concentration rather than the training of eye movements or ‘perceptual skills’1,2. It has been suggested3,4 that increasing one's concentration while reading, or ‘reading more actively’ (a term frequently used by instructors), results in an increasing use of the redundancy of the passage being read, making the immediate stimulus more easy to recognize and process further.
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MORTON, J. A Two-hour Reading Course. Nature 211, 323–324 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211323a0
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