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"Is this word a food, yes or no?" "If you give them a word that's not a food, say 'MEET,' but the word sounds like an actual food word (M-E-A-T), then they're more likely to say yes even though it's the wrong answer."
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"The software and apps don't know what you're doing, they don't know what your internal representation is, so they can't compensate for a failure in understanding because they don't have access to that knowledge,"
ELIZABETH SCHOTTER
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Reading's Mental Dance
Reading involves the visual acquisition of the symbols by the eye and the cognitive processing that goes on in the background. It's an intricate dance between a number of visual and mental processes highly dependent on language.
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Speed Reading Versus Evidence
There are different techniques that claim to increase ones reading speed but decades of medical and psychological research indicates that said speed gain comes at the cost of understanding.
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Research Backed Methods For Faster Reading
Research points to speed reading being a form of skimming, which is appropriate for short text but not for longer ones.
For long texts, reading more to increase vocabulary or read things you already know a lot about are the only scientifica...
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The Average Reader
Most educated people can read between 250 to 400 words per minute) with good comprehension. For comparison, a normal conversation produces 150 to 160 words per minute.
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Measurements Of Speed Reading And Comprehension
Although there is an academic consensus that speed-reading decreases comprehension,
On the other hand, the same can’t be said for comprehension measurement techniques, as we can process text differently according to context.
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"I took a course in speed-reading...and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia."
WOODY ALLEN
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"… no human being can read 1,000 or 2,000 words per minute and maintain the same levels of comprehension they do at 200 or 400 words per minute."
ELIZABETH SCHOTTER - COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGIST
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The Types of Eye Movements
- Regressions: Quick, unconscious re-readings we do when we don't understand something.
- Saccades: Jerky, 0.1-second eye movements we use to move our fovea (center of vision) from one word to another.
- Fixations: Brief, 250-mi...
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The Complexity Of Reading
Unlike speech, reading and writing are "cognitively unnatural."
As a human instinct, speech doesn’t have to be taught to an infant. Writing does, because it is not a purely visual process, both reading and writing piggyback on language and speech.
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The Fundamental Flaw On Speed Reading Softwares
Softwares using the RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) method eliminate time-wasting eye movements by presenting you one word at a time.
Again, the science says this tends to have a negative impact on comprehension as the rereading is important for understanding text.
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"Because we all learn to speak and listen before we learn to read, almost everyone tends to access the sounds of speech when they read."
ELIZABETH SCHOTTER
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The Impossibility Of Ignoring Your Inner Voice
Proponents of speed reading claim sub-vocalization is a detrimental habit that can be suppressed to increase ones reading speed.
On the other hand, research indicates even using techniques to stop sub-vocalization, the mere visual recognit...
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