Eye movement isn't the bottleneck. I mean, reducing fixations will not increase comprehension. Sure, your eye takes time to move, but each saccadic jump takes l

Eye movement isn't the bottleneck. I mean, reducing fixations will not increase comprehension. Sure, your eye takes time to move, but each saccadic jump takes less time (and is immensely precise with its jump, so it's a pretty optimized process) than that of text recognition to comprehension in your brain. Peripheral vision serves as priming mechanism. You can better prepare your mind to piece together relevant words and form meaning, but don't expect it to support reading like the center of gaze.