This same effect accurately describes how I read different words, for the first few years I was able to read. It was painstaking.
-- Raul On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:00 AM, William Tanksley, Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> William Tanksley, Jr wrote: >>> Humans don't process color with the same circuits that process text >> Doesn't the Stroop Effect >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect suggest they do? >> (Tightly-linked circuits, at least.) > > "Circuit" is perhaps a misleading term for what's going on -- but the > Stroop effect is what I was indeed referring to. My point is that when > you attempt to read a token that has both color and textual > information, you can't read both in one glance -- you have to look > once at the color, then look again at the text, then carefully think > about the two in isolation to make sure you don't mess them up, then > combine them to make sure you extract the correct meaning. It's a > slow, serial process that's inherently highly prone to cognitive > error. > > Therefore, > > -Wm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
