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Yellow backgrounds captured attention fastest among all colors tested
Yellow backgrounds produced the fastest initial attentional capture during text reading
Among seven background colours tested, yellow enabled readers to fixate on white text the fastest, with a median time-to-first fixation of 0.65 seconds.
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