Here are a couple more refs. Grainger, J., & Whitney, C. (2004). Does the human mind raed words as a wlohe? TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 58-59.
Rayner, K., White, S. J., Johnson, R. L., & Liversedge, S. P. (2006). Raeding words with jubmled lettres. Psychological Science, 17(3), 192-193. Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:18:02 -0400 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [tips] mangled English poster >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > >On 12 Oct 2007 at 19:59, Martha Capreol wrote, in response to a query of >Chris Green's >about a mangled poster at APA: > > >> This is the one that was emailed me to me a while ago now: >> >> >> Olny srmat poelpe can. >> >> cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was >> rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a >> rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the >> ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and >> lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you >> can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos >> not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? >> yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! >> >> if you can raed tihs psas it on !! >> > >This one's been around the web, so to speak (and also on TIPS, I think). >No such research took place at Cambridge University. The definitive >source for this and much more is here: > >http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/ > >Stephen > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. >Professor of Psychology, Emeritus >Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >2600 College St. >Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 >Canada > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- ---
