CAN YOU READ THIS?

[jal910s]

just because it looks weird ~
Believe it or not,
you can read it.

I cdnuolt blveiee
taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is
taht the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm.
This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh?

 

[Jellybean]

That's how they tell people to learn morse code, not by each letter but by the sound of the whole word.

I wonder how much grant money Cambridge U. spent to figure that out?

 

[DCWilson]

I don't think this has anything to do with sounds, but with the way our brains organize and process clusters of visual symbols to extract meaning from them.

 

[Dennis The B]

I believe that's how a program called "Program For Achievement In Reading" worked. Words were taken in whole, and they used a series of slides to teach the student to read faster, and with greater comphrehension.

That program was taught over 45 years ago.

 

[PDL]

These days, that's what my typing looks like anyway. Thank the PTB for spell check.

 

[Jellybean]

I don't think this has anything to do with sounds, but with the way our brains organize and process clusters of visual symbols to extract meaning from them.

My point was that the human brain will take part of what it sees, or hears, and fill in what it thinks should be there. This is one reason people who are scared will see things that aren't there. Their eye sees something that resembles something frightening and their imagination creates the rest of the picture around it. The same thing happens with sounds, if your ears think they hear someting in particular your brain will make it real.

In other words it not just visual symbols, it's audible symbols too. And I would say the other senses as well.