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This site appears to actually be by a researcher in the cognition and
brain sciences unit at Cambridge. I've copied a bit of the site below,
but there is a lot more. Rick Stevens ========================================================================================================= http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~matt.davis/Cmabrigde/ ... I work at Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, in Cambridge, UK, a Medical Research Council unit that includes a large group investigating how the brain processes language. If there's a new piece of research on reading that's been conducted in Cambridge, I thought I should have heard of it before... it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae... it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place This is clearly wrong. For instance, compare the following three sentences: 2) Big ccunoil tax ineesacrs tihs yaer hvae seezueqd the inmcoes of mnay pneosenirs All three sentences were randomised according to the "rules" described in the meme. The first and last letters have stayed in the same place and all the other letters have been moved. However, I suspect that your experience is the same as mine, which is that the texts get progressively more difficult to read. If you get stuck, you can click on the sentence to discover what the original was. Hopefully, these demonstrations will have convinced you that in some cases it can be very difficult to make sense of sentences with jumbled up words. Clearly, the first and last letter is not the only thing that you use when reading text. If this really was the case, how would you tell the difference between pairs of words like "salt" and "slat"? -- __ Dr. Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana @ Monroe __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- |
