On 10/22/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't buy that there is parallel recognition going on.

But that's not what the evidence you cited supports.

The evidence you cited weighs against the _comprehension_ claims of
speed-reading practitioners. That's fine, but I'm not defending those
claims.

I'm merely reacting to your suggestion that we can't
_perceive/recognize_ things in parallel, and instead recognize words
serially by saccading. This can be immediately disproven, just by
trying the no-saccade line at a time technique of speed readers, and
noting that one does in fact recognize all the words on a line,
simultaneously/in parallel.

> If one reads a lot,
> one forms chunks up to the size of phrases.

Of course, but that's a subsequent stage; to form primitives into
chunks, one must first recognize the primitives.

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