MS Psychologist on How We Read

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...

[dnaboy]

1. Antitrust

2. Sobig

3. Linux

so this is the best MS has in research?

[Anonymous Coward]

If this is an example of what the best at microsoft research can come up, they're doomed to die. So much for research and development of new technologies. Considering that everything in .NET is taken from some other language and wrapped with pretty packaging. .NET is much better than the old VB model of development, but it's completely unimpressive. Maybe they should buy MIT and fire their entire research staff. That way they would actually do R&D and innovate.

Re:so this is the best MS has in research?

[jellomizer]

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.