One thing worth noticing is that it looks like this effect only works provided that words with three letters or fewer are not garbled. I think what this shows is that there is a statistical element to reading. So provided that the beginning and ending characters are correct, and what's in between contains some of the characters that you would expect to find in that word you can still read it.
On 13/03/2008, Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/03/2008, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A bit of vision processing fun: > > > > > > http://www.friends.hosted.pl/redrim/Reading_Test.jpg > > > > > Interesting: is it possible to construct similar thing in audio form? > > > Not to spoil the fun, but the human brain is adept at recognizing > the same melody, whether its whistled, performed by an orchestra, > or sometimes even just beat out with knuckles on a door. > > At the "imperceptible" level, there are catalogues of audio tricks > known to sound alike to the naive ear, and these were employed > by the designers of things like ogg, mp3, etc. > > The above is one of the few that I've seen that crosses the > boundary of optical to linguistic processing. > > > --linas > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
