REBECCA TREIMAN - PSYCHOLOGY PHD

• Speed reading promises to help anyone read at speeds of above 1000 words per minute with full comprehension.
• The average college-level reader read at the speed of 200-400 words per minute.
• In 1959, Evelyn Wood launched Reading Dynamics, said to increase a reader's speed ...

The human eye has a spot called fovea, where vision is clearest. So you can see the center of a chunk most clearly, but you can still distinguish the surrounding words.

Reading a sentence in three or four chunks instead of word per wor...

The words themselves interfere with your ability to quickly say the correct color of the word. Two different theories have been proposed to explain this phenomenon :

• Selective attention theory : According to this theory, naming the actual color of the words requires mu...