A New Font, Specifically Designed for Peripheral Vision, Improves Peripheral Letter and Word Recognition, but Not Eye-Mediated Reading Performance - Fig 2

<p><b>Description of the experimental protocol for the gaze-contingent reading experiment (Exp1 and 5, plot a), letter recognition experiment (Exp 2 and 6, plot b) and word recognition experiment (Exp 3 and 4, plot c).</b> In Experiments 1 and 5 (plot a), the subject fixated a dot, pressed a button to display the text (and the gaze-contingent central scotoma centered on the foveal fixation), then made several fixations to identify the words of the sentence while they were reading them aloud (The black circle around the scotoma displayed on the figure was not visible during the experiments and the scotoma was a gray mask with the same luminance as the background). The subject pressed the button when he/she identified the presented words. In Experiments 2, 3, 4 and 6, the subject fixated a dot, pressed a button to display the letter trigram (Experiments 2 or 6, plot b) or the word/pseudoword (Experiments 3 or 4, plot c) in the lower visual field. In Experiments 2, 3 and 6, the stimulus disappeared after the preset presentation time and was replaced by a backward mask (200 ms). In Experiment 4, the stimulus disappeared after the subject pressed one of the two possible buttons.