From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:33:45 +0530 From: Martin C.Atkins To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Evolving rio / GUI development Message-Id: <20050223113345.5981654d.martin_ml@parvat.com> In-Reply-To: <532123d5e931250550b7c6296ac3d1e5@quintile.net> References: <532123d5e931250550b7c6296ac3d1e5@quintile.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 529bbfe4-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:47:40 +0000 "Steve Simon" wrote: > Tis interesting that perceptually words are both symbols and > text - in order to read at more than a couple of hundred words > per min (roman script) you have to read words by pattern matching > and much of that through peripheral vision. People rarely read > the characters of a word unless its one they don't recognise. Strange you should say that. I saw an article earlier in the week that suggested that most of the success of "speed reading" courses is to train people to do word-by-word pattern recognition. The unstated conclusion would be that such courses are not so effective for people who already read that way! I wonder if people who read that way are also, on average, less good at crossword puzzles/scrabble/etc? (Or have to learn these as a separate skill?) Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin_ml@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}