Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA02495 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 28 May 2002 16:13:03 +0100 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:08:04 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Fascinating To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3CF39D54.163FA082@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en,ja References: <570E2BEE7BC5A34684EE5914FCFC368C10FD10@fillan.stir.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Chris (and Vincent),
Vincent Campbell wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> This is a message from Chris Taylor, who's having some problems posting to
> the list (and getting through to the list administrator), and asked me to
> forward this:
>
> I love this (took ages to type in) -
>
> " ... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no
> effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is
> easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could
> ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same,
> and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to
> much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce
> retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael
> prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing
> coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton.
>
> We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang."
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Chris Taylor (chris@bioinf.man.ac.uk)
> http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/ »people»chris
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ye, thi i fascinatin. :-) Man year ag _ sa _ lette writte, a _ jok,
omittin th las letter o word. A th write sai, yo ca generall figur an
questionabl wor ou throug contex. _ wonde wha happen whe yo omi bot th
firs an las letter? To muc informatio los, I gues.
I an even, thi doe no prov tha readin o wor recognitio i processe i
paralle. Whil th brai i tot i obviousl _ paralle processo, ther i goo
evidenc tha muc o cognitio an precognitio i processe seriall. Goo model
o bot type hav bee constructe tha d th jo an ge th timin righ.
Bes,
Bil
P. S. Omtg intrnl vwls n sm othr ltrs wthn wds also hs ltl efct n
rdblty. Th cnsnnts cry mst f th smntc infmtn. Th wrtg sstms f sm lgges
mk use f ts fct. :-)
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