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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: gizz72 on November 17, 2004, 03:03:49 AM
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Ggnreteis,
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht 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 thought slpeling was Imporantt! :-o
Rehdrts,
Gziz
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:roll:
This would have to be the THIRD time this has been brought up on amiga.org!!
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@iamaboringperso
Huh?
:-D
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Since I, being natively Dutch, can read the text perfectly and without hesitation, it means that I have a very good grasp of the English language. I doubt I could do as well in French or even German.
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I've been sent this as an email twice, its been posted here at least twice, I've had people post the link into messenger and I read an article in the newspaper when this was originally discovered!
No offence, but ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz
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I've heard people speak like that you know...spooky.
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as I have dislexia this all looks completely normal to me. :lol:
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cecilia wrote:
as I have dislexia this all looks completely normal to me. :lol:
It looks completely normal to the rest of us too - that's supposedly the point.
Off topic,
Interestingly, a lot of highly creative people I know are all dyslexic. Is there an established connection?
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Its not that surprising considering that every image hitting our retina is reversed by our brain.
Processing visual information is a complex task,it takes up a relatively large portion of the brain compared to other senses. The optic part of your brain's job is to make images right-side-up. It does this because your brain is so USED to seeing things upside-down that it eventually adjusts to it.
With so much visual processing going on all the time, this is probably a walk in the park for our grey matter. :-)
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Actually, as far as I can tell, how do we know that we do see things up side down? Certianly the image on the retina is inverted, but interpretation of that information is the job of the visual cortex.
Does the brain really invert it, or do we just process it as is and perceive it the correct way up since that is what we are used to?
I know some experiments were done in which people had to wear a special image inverting headset the entire time they were awake. After a few days they were entirely used to it.
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Hmm.. interesting.
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Karlos wrote:
Does the brain really invert it, or do we just process it as is and perceive it the correct way up since that is what we are used to?
the brain is all about pattern recognition.
Brain and Brain!
What is Brain! :lol:
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I'd love to know what dislexia is like. I ought to study up on it. :)
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Some of my best students were dyslexic. Granted they had to put more effort into the learning process, but they seemed to me to be typically more intelligent.
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cecilia wrote:
Karlos wrote:
Does the brain really invert it, or do we just process it as is and perceive it the correct way up since that is what we are used to?
the brain is all about pattern recognition.
Brain and Brain!
What is Brain! :lol:
Hey don't forget Pinky :-D
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Karlos wrote:
Actually, as far as I can tell, how do we know that we do see things up side down? Certianly the image on the retina is inverted, but interpretation of that information is the job of the visual cortex.
Does the brain really invert it, or do we just process it as is and perceive it the correct way up since that is what we are used to?
I was thinking about this exact same thing the other day! I decided eventually that it is neither the correct way up or the upside down, because there is no up and down inside the brain.
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iamaboringperson wrote:
I'd love to know what dislexia is like. I ought to study up on it. :)
it's really annoying, actually. my mind likes to reverse letters and sometimes numbers and I have to constantly "rehearse" what I need to say before I say it.
which is why I hate talking on the phone and well, talking in general. it's Exhusting!
whenever someone gives me a phone number I have to repeat the number about 5 times to make sure I have it right.
strangely, I've never had a big problem with math. and one has to use algebra with animation all the time. and I have no problems there, either. (well, I use a calculous to save time. but my point is that i can do these things without making mistakes).
well, it's a giant pain, but it's the way my brain works and there's nothing I can do about it. you just have to spend alot of time compensating. I'm sure many of my time-saving habits so well appreciated by bosses are a result of this "problem" and my having to learn to deal with it.
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Hum,
i suppose iama could just use a mirror to read by...
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@blob
What about a text randomizer program? Something that preserves the overall sequence of words but jumbles up the letters in them?
Or is that not quite the effect?
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Shame mushies are just about out of season, I'm sure they might have a similar effect...;-)
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@karlos
muh,
wonk t`ndluow i
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blobrana wrote:
wonk t`ndluow i
You just leave your star wars name out of this :-D