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Does Anyone Else Miss Words Out?
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I can scribe an entire spiel, give it a cursory glance and submit, not just on here. I then go on to find i've missed out several conjunctions (generally)
This has only just started to happen recently, it's like those tricks on fb where you read the first and last letters of a word and can make sense of an entire paragraph.
Only, this isn't a trick and to be honest i'm reluctant to submit this as although I know i've treble checked it my eyes might just have played a trick and there may be a a duplicated word or a missing one.(not talking typos)
Anyone else?
This has only just started to happen recently, it's like those tricks on fb where you read the first and last letters of a word and can make sense of an entire paragraph.
Only, this isn't a trick and to be honest i'm reluctant to submit this as although I know i've treble checked it my eyes might just have played a trick and there may be a a duplicated word or a missing one.(not talking typos)
Anyone else?
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You're never over 40, kylesmum? Your typing looks much younger than that!
21:56 Sun 04th Jan 2015
From a paper on ageing....
Experimental research and older adults’ reports of their own experience suggest that the ability to produce the spoken forms or written forms of familiar words declines with aging.
Older adults experience more word-finding failures, such as tip-of-the-tongue states, than young adults do, and this and other speech production failures appear to stem from difficulties in retrieving the sounds of words.
Recent evidence has identified a parallel age-related decline in retrieving the spelling of familiar words. Models of cognitive aging must explain why these aspects of language production decline with aging whereas semantic processes are well maintained."
The researchers go on to describe a model wherein aging weakens connections among linguistic representations, thereby reducing the transmission of excitation from one representation to another. The structure of the representational systems for word phonology and orthography makes them vulnerable to transmission deficits, impairing retrieval. In short, this is nothing out of the ordinary.
Experimental research and older adults’ reports of their own experience suggest that the ability to produce the spoken forms or written forms of familiar words declines with aging.
Older adults experience more word-finding failures, such as tip-of-the-tongue states, than young adults do, and this and other speech production failures appear to stem from difficulties in retrieving the sounds of words.
Recent evidence has identified a parallel age-related decline in retrieving the spelling of familiar words. Models of cognitive aging must explain why these aspects of language production decline with aging whereas semantic processes are well maintained."
The researchers go on to describe a model wherein aging weakens connections among linguistic representations, thereby reducing the transmission of excitation from one representation to another. The structure of the representational systems for word phonology and orthography makes them vulnerable to transmission deficits, impairing retrieval. In short, this is nothing out of the ordinary.
Jim....you're young enough to laugh about it !!
Tilly...glad you made sense of it...it was actually one of my better typos and only you picked it up ;)
ummmm...can only begin to imagine what you had written out...bet the teacher got a laugh though. Hasn't harmed you though, you're one of the most concise writers i've come across.....ever. No mean feat !
Tilly...glad you made sense of it...it was actually one of my better typos and only you picked it up ;)
ummmm...can only begin to imagine what you had written out...bet the teacher got a laugh though. Hasn't harmed you though, you're one of the most concise writers i've come across.....ever. No mean feat !
I've realised recently that a lot of what I write in personal emails could be described as shorthand - certainly not proper sentences sometimes. I'm more careful with work correspondence which is more formal, but I have realised that it looks a bit slapdash. It's verbal words which elude me sometimes, I can see the thing but just have to root about a bit for its correct name....
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