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The Science of Word Recognition

Posted by michael on from the paris-in-the-the-spring dept.

neile writes "I stumbled across a fascinating paper over at the Microsoft Typography site today that provides a really nice overview of the different theories on how humans read. If you thought we read by recognizing word shapes, think again! With the assistance of fancy eye-tracking cameras researchers have been able to devise several clever experiments to give us new insight into how reading works." We've linked to some of Larson's work previously.

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  1. AAAAAARRGGHHH, I'm going blind! by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would one of those stupid comments about the colour scheme on /. be on-topic now?

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  2. Honest!!! by TheWingThing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was reading what was written on her T-shirt!

    1. Re:Honest!!! by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: 5, Funny
      I liked the t-shirt that said,

      (in big letters) If you can read this,

      (in slightly smaller letters)you obviously must have

      (in still smaller letters)very good eyesight.

      (in smaller letters)While you're down here, why don't you give me a blow job?

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  3. Quotation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Evidence from the last 20 years of work in cognitive psychology indicates that we use the letters within a word to recognize a word."

    Man, I'm so glad they finally figured this out...

  4. Re:aaah!! eyes hurt! by The+Grassy+Knoll · · Score: 5, Funny

    >renerding on firefox

    re-nerding! ha ha. Best... typo... ever...

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