MMMM... Mind power

[Cody Carey]

I got this in an e-mail!

Anyone who thinks computers are closing in on the human mind in terms of power, should read this, then try it in a text recognition programm.

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 in waht 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!

Does anyone know any sites that I can find more stuff like this?

[probizzle]

I read a linguistics paper that went farther and analyzed human reading even more. It was extremely interesting.
You know WHY READING ALL CAPS IS SLOWER THAN READING NON-ALL-CAPS? Because your eye looks at the word shape (like "word" has three small letters, and one tall one) and lots of other things while reading to understand stuff. I'll look for the paper later, and post if i find it.
Also, your eye/brain doesn't read everything. Letters (as well as words) are constantly skipped, and you interpolate what you skipped. TO see what I mean, read the above post slowly, and then speed-read it. You'll see you'll have an easier time speed-reading it because you are skipping so many letters anyways.

(gone looking for that darned paper)

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Cody C

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 in waht 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!

Funny - apparently the words can be spelled wrong, and you can still read them without a problem!

rdgnieg = regding = reading
rscheearch = researchch = research

[Andrew Y.]

holy crap i love that. im going to sit here and read it like 5 more times

[evulish]

This was on Slashdot months ago and I do believe there was a thread about it back then. There's probably lots of good (and bad) info in the comments in the Slashdot post.

[Allison K]

Originally Posted by Cody C

I got this in an e-mail!

Anyone who thinks computers are closing in on the human mind in terms of power, should read this, then try it in a text recognition programm.

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 in waht 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!

Does anyone know any sites that I can find more stuff like this?

If you tnihk that is iineestrtg you shluod tkae a psyhlocsogy cslas. It's aniamzg the way the hmuan biarn wkors.

My favorite chapters so far have been the ones on Learning and Memory, but I read ahead and Cognition, Language, and Inteligence and Personality look pretty interesting too. And Sensation and Perception was fun. And the chapter on sleep was rather interesting as well. Did you know that you're paralyzed when you dream, and that usually if you dream you're falling you wake up? It probably depends somewhat on the teacher/professor you have but it really is an interesting class.