News Finding: The results showed that, during normal reading, comprehension levels were about the same whether the students did or did not make a regression.
Paper Finding: Third, the fact that subjects were much less likely to make a regression in the trailing-mask condition than in the normal-reading condition suggests that readers do have control over their eye movement behavior and adapt to conditions such as the trailing-mask manipulation.
News Context: "Our ability to control the timing and sequence of how we intake information about the text is important for comprehension. The results showed that, during normal reading, comprehension levels were about the same whether the students did or did not make a regression. These results suggest that we only make regressions when we fail to understand something, and we can fill in the gap by going back to look again.
Paper Context: Second, the fact that display condition did not affect the duration of gaze on the subject noun suggests that our manipulation did not dramatically affect the initial reading process. Third, the fact that subjects were much less likely to make a regression in the trailing-mask condition than in the normal-reading condition suggests that readers do have control over their eye movement behavior and adapt to conditions such as the trailing-mask manipulation. Finally, and most important, our data showing the relationship between regressions and reading comprehension are the most compelling evidence suggesting that reading without the ability to reread parts of the text, when necessary, decreases comprehension accuracy.