Words Backwards
Freakishly, we can still raed them.
And, you probably just did. Yes, that misspelling of “read” was on purpose. I did it as an example of what Kourosh Saberi of Caltech, Pasadena, and David R. Perrott of California State University, Los Angeles, California have discovered about how we “see” words. According to this article on Nature.com, we apparently don’t usually read all the letters in a word, just the first and last. The rest of the letters can be there in almost any order and we’ll still “see” the right word. It’s bizarre, but apparently true, to a certain extent, of course.
Hmm, I wonder if that’s why I have such trouble spelling?
In any case, it’s an interesting article and idea. Go check it out.
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