Re: Lteter Oerdr?

From: Martin Ryder (mryder@carbon.cudenver.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 16:11:06 PDT


Don,

Fr a graet srce, consdr the wrk 'f Jerome Bruner (1973), 'Beyond the
Information Given'. Bruner w'd sa th't the cntxt of a givn feld of
data, alng with the schma th't we impos into th't cntxt 'nables us t'
xtrct clr ndrstndng from othrwiz imprcptble felds 'f data.
Bruner sggsts tht wre cnstntly mkng 'nfrnces basd 'n
pr-xistng ctgries th't r knwn t' us...the 'bdctive proces u
knw wel 's 'smeosis'.

Martin R.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Cunningham, Donald James wrote:

> Has anyone ever come across the actual research on this?
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> "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
> in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
> that the first and last ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be
> a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. This is
> bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
> wrod as a wlohe."
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> Don Cunningham
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> Indiana University
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Martin Ryder
http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/martin.html



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