This is logical and I thought obvious. I would even say our eyes focus on whole words or even sentences at once.

Surely the scientists didn't think we read one letter at a time? Did they think we read s-u-r-e-l-y, than translate that into "surely".

I don't think so, that would be incredibly inefficient. It would take several days just to read a single page.

"Aoccdrnig to rschearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm."

Yup. That's amazing isn't it.

Yes, that's true. I find that scientists often prove things that are somewhat obvious.

Yes, true. Amazing how special our brains are, making us able to do this. Or maybe it just illustrates how dumb computers are, that can just process information sequentially.

I'm no scientist, but shouldn't they have done an equal number of their experiments with one eyed people?

Or at least have the volunteers cover one eye and read for a bit, and then do the other eye. Read by candlelight, read with a book light, read in the dark...ok...I went a little too far there.