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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Interesting

[Kurayamino-X]

They seem to have forgotten that you can recognise a lot of words wtih the letters out of order as long as the first and last letters are in the right spot. in fact there was a slashdot article on it a while ago.