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you can read an entire article with every single word misspelled with no problems at all.

http://www.brainconnection.com/content/198_1

Just to throw in my two cents, the interesting portions to me was all about this:

A day after the exercise, children were asked to recall the story and the characters in it. The findings showed that 90 per cent of the group that used the first program had good or excellent recall of the story.

It doesn't seem like the researchers are testing reading ability, they're "just" testing memory. And of course you're going to have poor memory when you have multiple distracting events going on as well. It looks like either the headlines were sensationalized, misunderstood, or the researchers are comparing apples to pomegranates.

Here is an interesting sumamry of what regions of the brain are involved in reading and language. Slide #6 of this brain dissection is an illustration of the subdivisions that play significant roles in memory. Reading and memory may share some overlap, but to test one does not always involve testing the other.

Since we use a small fraction of our brain

No. We use all of it.

Everyone who reads memepool would probably think the same. :)

Read about it here