“…However, these studies do not tell us how the reading process is influenced on a moment-to-moment basis. More recently, several eye-tracking studies have addressed this question by showing that the effect of background speech on reading can also be found at the level of fixation durations and fixation probabilities ( Cauchard, Cane, & Weger, 2012 ; Hyönä & Ekholm, 2016 ; Vasilev, Liversedge, Rowan, Kirkby, & Angele, 2017 ; Yan, Meng, Liu, He, & Paterson, 2017 ). One key finding from these studies is that background speech leads to an increased number of rereading fixations.…”