If tehy are in the crorcet pacle we can sitll raed the wohle wrod eevn touhgh erveytihng in betewen is a big mses?
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2007-07-12 09:38:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Galdy!
I 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 !!
2007-07-12 09:47:01 · answer #1 · answered by Ink Corporate 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard that, but it sounds logical. It's not so much that the order of the rest of the letters doesn't matter, but that the human brain is *extremely* good at figuring things out from context ... and the first and last letter (especially the first letter) help set the context. They dramatically reduce the number of patterns your brain has to consider when deciphering the answer.
Remember that when you are reading a word, you are not sounding it out ... the fact that we have a phonetic alphabet is only helpful when we're reading a word whose appearance we're not familiar with (which is *ALL* words when we're first learning to read).
Keep in mind that your example is not as jumbled up as it might seem. For example in 'erveytihng', you only moved two letters (the 'r' and the 'i') ... piece of cake for the human brain.
Had it been 'eenhitvyerg' it would have been a bit more difficult ... and we would have needed more of the sentence to figure it out.
So the intermediate letters are important too ... but the first letter (and to some degree the last) is just a *tad* bit more important.
2007-07-12 17:41:52 · answer #2 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I am sorry to say not all brians work this way. The brian looks at the first letter, the length of the word, and the last letter. The brian compares what it just saw to what it has seen. If the semi-scrambled word looks like a prior word, the brain relates it as that word. However when the brian knows multiple words like that or doesn't know the word, the brian looks at the word again. This is the annoying effect from it.
2007-07-12 17:21:56 · answer #3 · answered by evilhenny2000 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, let me tell you something. I tried this before in Spanish (my native language) and it worked perfectly I was able to understand everything I was reading. With English was different I could understand but it took me longer than reading regularly... maybe is because my brain does not recognize all the English words yet or maybe it needs more time to recognize them...
Amazing...
2007-07-12 19:15:40 · answer #4 · answered by karla 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is actually the key to speed reading. If you can train your brain to read full sentences at a clip, just the way we read words and not letters, you increase your reading skills exponentially.
2007-07-12 17:40:31 · answer #5 · answered by troubledyouthafg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At frist I thohgt it was abuot cihdlern - "bairn" - but on fruhter rdaenig I raelsie yuo're rhgit
2007-07-12 17:25:55 · answer #6 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to be true for many people. Yes I can read your message. Some people that might be dyslexic can not
2007-07-12 17:25:06 · answer #7 · answered by science teacher 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Timmy!
2007-07-12 16:46:34 · answer #8 · answered by Mark G 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes I can read this but it was very annoying!
2007-07-12 16:46:25 · answer #9 · answered by lcplyr7 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Amazing. I love it!
2007-07-12 17:12:56 · answer #10 · answered by fahlula 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋