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The Science of Word Recognition
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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so whenever you're emailing THINK CLIPPY and you'll get a nice edge into your mail.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Seeing how I got my invitation throught a giveaway right here on slahshdot, I'll "pay it forward," so to speak.
I will email an invitation to each of the first four people to reply to this post (just don't forget to provide me with some form of a human-readable email address).
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I drank what? -- Socrates