Does Photoreading really works?

Question

I need to know what other methods are out there for rapid learning or new learning strategies in case photoreading doesnt work, thanks

Answer 1

From Wikipedia:

PhotoReading is a commercial learning product of Learning Strategies Corporation. The corporation sells Photoreading seminars and home courses that claim to allow people to photoread, a term coined for a step in which one unconsciously intakes information. By that claim, the reader's speed of absorbing words is directly dependent on the amount of information on each page and by page-flipping rate.

Alex K. Viefhaus and others on the Learning Strategies Forum have stated that reading and Photoreading are two different things; traditional reading actively intakes information through the conscious mind while photoreading passively utilizes peripheral vision through the other-than-conscious mind.

Advertising for this product state that the reading method is based on beliefs about the human brain's cerebral hemispheres and possible pseudoscience concerning brain waves.

The distinguishing feature of PhotoReading is that the readers allow the unconscious mind to rapidly absorb material and then logically or consciously recapture the information they photoread through multiple perusals, as opposed to conventional reading or speed reading, which relies solely on the conscious mind to sort information through one passing conscious mind.

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