This might be a bit hard for the non-English speakers, but have a go anyway.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
This research can be quite useful for people who do not have spell-check on their computer or, are mildly dyslexic like me after a late night of "wine, women and song":hehe:
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Jun 30, 2008 @ 20:10
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This might be a bit hard for the non-English speakers, but have a go anyway.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
This research can be quite useful for people who do not have spell-check on their computer or, are mildly dyslexic like me after a late night of "wine, women and song":hehe:
Verbier
VerbierJun 30, 2008 @ 20:10
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
This research can be quite useful for people who do not have spell-check on their computer or, are mildly dyslexic like me after a late night of "wine, women and song":hehe:
Verbier
VerbierJun 30, 2008 @ 20:10
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Jun 30, 2008 @ 21:37
[quote] Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Verbier[/quote]
not really, its been know for a long long time (before Cambridge where founded.. ... dont trust everything you read on the internet) that we read patterns. Do a simple test, print a piece of text, take a sheet of paper and cover the bottom of the letters (so you just se the top part of each letter) and you will be able to read the text. And that is why our letters look like they do, the "important" part to recognise a letter is in the upper part.
Now this is different in different cultures, like if you take a magazine from asia its full with information, everywhere, same with homepages, its stuff all over the place. That is because they are trained to read one sign at a time, and only one sign at a time. We (western) look more to pattern, and therefore we can only handle 5 + 3 item, so example and home page should have 5 major choices and it can have 3 choices that are repeated.
Example, can you say what the options are in the glocals meny (without looking) are, I give you two, "Home" and "Members Activities" probably you can say 2-3 more... and this is how the really good hompages and magazines are constructed...
(sorry have been working with this in my pre-swiss life :)
cheers
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Verbier[/quote]
not really, its been know for a long long time (before Cambridge where founded.. ... dont trust everything you read on the internet) that we read patterns. Do a simple test, print a piece of text, take a sheet of paper and cover the bottom of the letters (so you just se the top part of each letter) and you will be able to read the text. And that is why our letters look like they do, the "important" part to recognise a letter is in the upper part.
Now this is different in different cultures, like if you take a magazine from asia its full with information, everywhere, same with homepages, its stuff all over the place. That is because they are trained to read one sign at a time, and only one sign at a time. We (western) look more to pattern, and therefore we can only handle 5 + 3 item, so example and home page should have 5 major choices and it can have 3 choices that are repeated.
Example, can you say what the options are in the glocals meny (without looking) are, I give you two, "Home" and "Members Activities" probably you can say 2-3 more... and this is how the really good hompages and magazines are constructed...
(sorry have been working with this in my pre-swiss life :)
cheers
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[quote] Tihs is
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Verbier[/quote]
not really, its been know for a long long time (before Cambridge where founded.. ... dont trust everything you read on the internet) that we read patterns. Do a simple test, print a piece of text, take a sheet of paper and cover the bottom of the letters (so you just se the top part of each letter) and you will be able to read the text. And that is why our letters look like they do, the "important" part to recognise a letter is in the upper part.
Now this is different in different cultures, like if you take a magazine from asia its full with information, everywhere, same with homepages, its stuff all over the place. That is because they are trained to read one sign at a time, and only one sign at a time. We (western) look more to pattern, and therefore we can only handle 5 + 3 item, so example and home page should have 5 major choices and it can have 3 choices that are repeated.
Example, can you say what the options are in the glocals meny (without looking) are, I give you two, "Home" and "Members Activities" probably you can say 2-3 more... and this is how the really good hompages and magazines are constructed...
(sorry have been working with this in my pre-swiss life :)
cheers
sandholm, Jun 30, 2008 @ 21:37
bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Verbier[/quote]
not really, its been know for a long long time (before Cambridge where founded.. ... dont trust everything you read on the internet) that we read patterns. Do a simple test, print a piece of text, take a sheet of paper and cover the bottom of the letters (so you just se the top part of each letter) and you will be able to read the text. And that is why our letters look like they do, the "important" part to recognise a letter is in the upper part.
Now this is different in different cultures, like if you take a magazine from asia its full with information, everywhere, same with homepages, its stuff all over the place. That is because they are trained to read one sign at a time, and only one sign at a time. We (western) look more to pattern, and therefore we can only handle 5 + 3 item, so example and home page should have 5 major choices and it can have 3 choices that are repeated.
Example, can you say what the options are in the glocals meny (without looking) are, I give you two, "Home" and "Members Activities" probably you can say 2-3 more... and this is how the really good hompages and magazines are constructed...
(sorry have been working with this in my pre-swiss life :)
cheers
sandholm, Jun 30, 2008 @ 21:37
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Jun 30, 2008 @ 21:55
Hi.
You can try some related experiments (pps file):
http://home.ifi.uio.no/geirmaur/opticalillusions01_1.pps
:)
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Hi.
You can try some related experiments (pps file):
http://home.ifi.uio.no/geirmaur/opticalillusions01_1.pps
:)
new_concept, Jun 30, 2008 @ 21:55
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Jun 30, 2008 @ 22:09
[quote]Hi.
You can try some related experiments (pps file):
http://home.ifi.uio.no/geirmaur/opticalillusions01_1.pps
:)[/quote]
this is related, but are more examples on how we have evolved and how our brain/vision has evolved, our brain is so trigged too measure distance and it do this by using the angle between our eyes (which is actually 14 degrees on more or less all people...) and doing this we can detect how line bends towards each other and overlapping, we also compare a lot of objects due to size (a person far away is smaller, one close is bigger).
But the elephant is a great example, show this to an asian person (who uses there writing system daily) and they cant make anything out of it, because the look at one piece each time, but people who uses letters and reads pattern we get an illusion on how many legs there are.
These are fun, thanks for sharing, love these (screws with your brain :)
cheers
You can try some related experiments (pps file):
http://home.ifi.uio.no/geirmaur/opticalillusions01_1.pps
:)[/quote]
this is related, but are more examples on how we have evolved and how our brain/vision has evolved, our brain is so trigged too measure distance and it do this by using the angle between our eyes (which is actually 14 degrees on more or less all people...) and doing this we can detect how line bends towards each other and overlapping, we also compare a lot of objects due to size (a person far away is smaller, one close is bigger).
But the elephant is a great example, show this to an asian person (who uses there writing system daily) and they cant make anything out of it, because the look at one piece each time, but people who uses letters and reads pattern we get an illusion on how many legs there are.
These are fun, thanks for sharing, love these (screws with your brain :)
cheers
The text you are quoting:
[quote]Hi.
You can try some related experiments (pps file):
http://home.ifi.uio.no/geirmaur/opticalillusions01_1.pps
:)[/quote]
this is related, but are more examples on how we have evolved and how our brain/vision has evolved, our brain is so trigged too measure distance and it do this by using the angle between our eyes (which is actually 14 degrees on more or less all people...) and doing this we can detect how line bends towards each other and overlapping, we also compare a lot of objects due to size (a person far away is smaller, one close is bigger).
But the elephant is a great example, show this to an asian person (who uses there writing system daily) and they cant make anything out of it, because the look at one piece each time, but people who uses letters and reads pattern we get an illusion on how many legs there are.
These are fun, thanks for sharing, love these (screws with your brain :)
cheers
sandholm, Jun 30, 2008 @ 22:09
You can try some related experiments (pps file):
http://home.ifi.uio.no/geirmaur/opticalillusions01_1.pps
:)[/quote]
this is related, but are more examples on how we have evolved and how our brain/vision has evolved, our brain is so trigged too measure distance and it do this by using the angle between our eyes (which is actually 14 degrees on more or less all people...) and doing this we can detect how line bends towards each other and overlapping, we also compare a lot of objects due to size (a person far away is smaller, one close is bigger).
But the elephant is a great example, show this to an asian person (who uses there writing system daily) and they cant make anything out of it, because the look at one piece each time, but people who uses letters and reads pattern we get an illusion on how many legs there are.
These are fun, thanks for sharing, love these (screws with your brain :)
cheers
sandholm, Jun 30, 2008 @ 22:09
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Jul 3, 2008 @ 01:43
sandholm - what happens when someone masters both languages... symbol based and alphabet based?
Does it matter if someone whose first language is Mandarin or Japanese, becomes fluent in English or French later? Or, someone whose first language is French and later becomes fluent in Japanese? Does the first learnt language determine how someone senses a string of marks?
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sandholm - what happens when someone masters both languages... symbol based and alphabet based?
Does it matter if someone whose first language is Mandarin or Japanese, becomes fluent in English or French later? Or, someone whose first language is French and later becomes fluent in Japanese? Does the first learnt language determine how someone senses a string of marks?
colorado, Jul 3, 2008 @ 01:43
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