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Thursday, November 18

Wow, insight on how our mind reads text :

This looks like gibberish, but if you try to read it, you'll find it's perfectly readable! Plus it's doing self-referencing in a very Hofstadterish way... :D 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 ipmorantt Location : Beauvais, France

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Blogger Dyslexia Alliance of Merrimack Valley intuited...

This little paragraph from Cambridge University is quite something. I read it without a problem... wonder what it means for people with dyslexia? I was slogging though the back posts for your blog (looks like Thanksgiving was fantastic for you and Ivonne!) and came across this. I'm passing it along to my friends as soon as Libby stops biting my left big toe.

1/07/2005 10:20:00 PM  

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