{"id":"db47f58e-0338-4eea-a9b0-5f1cba181d00","url":"https://www.futurity.org/eye-movements-brain-activity-reading-comprehension-3339332/","domain":"futurity.org","outlet":{"name":"Futurity","country":null,"cred":null,"lean":null,"curated":false},"title":"How your brain processes words you skip while reading","plainHeadline":null,"rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["1. New research from the University of South Florida explores how skipped words are processed by the brain.","2. Elizabeth Schotter and Sara Milligan conducted the study published in Psychophysiology.","3. The study reveals that readers use peripheral vision to process skipped words, not just guessing.","4. Eye movements occur every 250 milliseconds, requiring simultaneous brain processes for comprehension.","5. The research combined EEG and eye-tracking to link eye movements with brain activity during reading.","6. 55 participants read 180 sentences, allowing researchers to analyze responses to expected and unexpected words.","7. Skipping a word does not mean it is ignored; the brain partially registers skipped words.","8. Future research will explore how reading strategies vary with goals and individual differences."],"topics":["Science"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-06-25T18:46:15.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-06-25T19:09:20.752Z","story":null}