Don,
I'm very interested in this. Whether or not there has been
systematic research, it certainly throws interesting light on the
processes involved in "normal" reading. I had no difficulty at all
in reading the passage below. On the other hand, when i am reading
my own or other people's papers at normal speed, particularly when
typed, I equally have little difficulty in spotting typos or spelling
errors. i wonder how these phenomena are related.
Gordon
>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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-- Gordon Wells Dept of Education, http://people.ucsc.edu/~gwells UC Santa Cruz.
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