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Typoglycemia: Cna yuo raed tihs?

9/20/2017

 
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

In case you couldn't read that it says: According to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter what order the letters in  a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole. To prove this, I had about 12 students at AMS read the statement. They ended up all being able to read it.
 
However it won’t always work. For example, if you had a word like photograph, where the ph makes the f sound, it would be harder to read: pohoatgprh. That wasn’t as easy to read as the word hppay, was it?
 
If you want to make your own typoglycemia sentence you can go to http://www.dcode.fr/typoglycemia-generator or http://orbitsimulator.com/BA/typoglycemia.html 

Story by Sophie Kafka
 
Sources: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/
http://observer.com/2017/03/chunking-typoglycemia-brain-consume-information/


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