MS Psychologist on How We Read

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 28, 2003 @02:27AM from the can-you-raed-tihs dept.

RenderMonkey writes "In another follow-up to Can You Raed Tihs? Microsoft's Kevin Larson, a cognitive psychologist, dissected the main hypotheses on how we read at ATypI's Vancouver Typography conference. "Kevin supports the 'parallel letter recognition' model. People don't he says, recognise whole-word shapes. Instead the recognise each of the letter components and then make a series of best-guesses on the information returned to assemble, first, phonemes and then words." So what about the case of patterned re-ordering, aka the counter example to Can You Raed Tihs?"

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Here's some whole word shapes... by dnaboy · 2003-09-28 02:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

1. Antitrust
2. Sobig
3. Linux
Re:so this is the best MS has in research? by jellomizer · 2003-09-28 02:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What is really stinks is the fact that this information was realized a couple of weeks ago by a different group. (I am sure someone has the slashdot link to it but I am to lazy) But I guess it is the best that Microsoft can do in all areas. Wait for a discovery by someone else wait a week to make sure it is true, then say that they invented it and pat themselves on the back.

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