Figure 2.

Examining fixation behavior on the fundus using a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO). The instrument allows simultaneous visualization of the fundus and the text (which appears reversed only to the examiner). This makes it possible to make a direct live recording of the reading process on the retina: a) normal person with central fixation (in this example of the word “gab”), b) patient with juvenile macular degeneration (Stargardt’s maculopathy). The patient reads the text with an eccentric, normal part of the retina above the lesion (and fixates on the word “gab”) (modified from [6, 21]).