The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid ;-)

gizz72 · 11-16-2004, 08:03 PM

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

iamaboringperson · 11-16-2004, 09:10 PM

:roll:

This would have to be the THIRD time this has been brought up on amiga.org!!

blobrana · 11-16-2004, 09:38 PM

@iamaboringperso

Huh?

:-D

Cymric · 11-17-2004, 02:02 AM

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.

Cyberus · 11-17-2004, 04:04 AM

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

**odin** · 11-17-2004, 08:56 AM

I've heard people speak like that you know...spooky.

**cecilia** · 11-17-2004, 12:52 PM

as I have dislexia this all looks completely normal to me.

**Karlos** · 11-17-2004, 03:13 PM

Quote:

cecilia wrote:
as I have dislexia this all looks completely normal to me.

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?

**GadgetMaster** · 11-17-2004, 04:02 PM

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. :-)

**Karlos** · 11-17-2004, 04:07 PM

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.

**GadgetMaster** · 11-17-2004, 04:15 PM

Hmm.. interesting.

**cecilia** · 11-17-2004, 08:31 PM

Quote:

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!

iamaboringperson · 11-17-2004, 11:35 PM

I'd love to know what dislexia is like. I ought to study up on it.

bjjones37 · 11-18-2004, 01:22 PM

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.