Thread: How We Read
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Old Feb 13, 2004, 06:31 pm   #2 (permalink) (top)
Paavo
 
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Hehe, yeah that's weird.
It's been popping up here and there on the 'net, it's really cool and kindof makes one think how our brain works when it comes to vision-to-thought-action.

It's obviously the way our brain can "fill in" the words we know from before, just glancing over quickly, but I'm guessing we couldn't "fill in" words that have been altered into ways we haven't seen before. Say we had a new word, "Bleamance". If it'd be a verb, and someone shuffled the inner letters of:
'I was bleamancing'
to:
'I was belamncanig'
, I'd think it wouldn't work anymore. So it's something like our eyes receive light from a part of the room, and even if not focusing on that part anymore, the brain would "fill in" the part according to the previous data we saved.

It's cool.
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