Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape 420
hessian writes "Skilled readers can recognize words at lightning fast speed when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) neuroscientists. The visual dictionary idea rebuts the theory that our brain 'sounds out' words each time we see them."
first pnst!! (Score:5, Funny)
2nd Grade (Score:5, Funny)
My daughter come home from 2nd Grade every week with a list of 'sight-words' to focus on - that is, words that were intended to be immediately recognized, not sounded out.
Glad modern science has caught up with elementary school.
The funny thing is (Score:5, Funny)
As I read, I read to myself in my head, not sounding out letters, but the words as I go. Whenever I see this example of transposition, that voice in my head starts to sound like it has Down syndrome.
Re:Yes (Score:5, Funny)
And at least for myself, the first few times I saw the word "prefect" in Harry Potter, I thought it said "perfect" and kept wondering why they were so arrogant.
In ye olden days of 5 digit /. UIDs, that was "Ford Prefect" from HHGTTG.
This also begs the question, of like, um, why completely inappropriately used phrases drive some people bonkers and others don't care. My visual cortex knows that "begs the question" is almost certainly meaningless filler and its application 99.9% of the time has no relation to its actual meaning, so I do not process/see it. Ditto uh, um, like. Perhaps like people in the under 30 crowd process spoken language like in a similar way, explaining why they like have this absolutely desperate like need to fill all pauses with the word "like" whenever they speak, like especially in like public.
Re:Interesting... (Score:2, Funny)
better that it goes into a buffer, at least, and not straight to /dev/null ...
I don't (Score:5, Funny)
read subjects.
Re:Yes (Score:5, Funny)
In ye olden days of 5 digit /. UIDs, that was "Ford Prefect" from HHGTTG.
And in ye olden dayes of 4 digit /. UIDs, it was the captain of your local Praetorian guard unit.
Re:Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
One thing my girlfriend does that annoys the absolute piss out of me is ask me questions when i'm deep in thought writing an essay or coding. I swear this is my brain at those moments:
Active process: writeProgram("Project.cpp") ...
HARDWARE INTERRUPT: "Honey do you think I should curl my hair or straighten it for tomorrow?"
caching audio file...
Abort module(writeProgram);
exiting to OS...
exiting...
loading Awareness.bat
paging filesystem
loading recognition:speech(5849932 bytes)
loading calendar->tomorrow (4355 bytes)
loading, hair (34382 bytes)
loading, woman (0? bytes)
accessing speech drivers
Speak: "Ah..bu..wha..."
IRQ conflict detected!
resolving conflict
emptying audio cache
reloading speech driver...
Ready.
WARNING: audio recording length: 0 bytes
Speak: "Um... yes?"
"Why do you never listen to what I say!??"
Re:Yes (Score:5, Funny)