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Is there a saying for
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when you see a word with a letter missing but you can still read the word
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I'm not an expert but I think it's to do with familiarity of syntax. It's because we often recognise word shapes by, say, the beginning, middle and end, and because we expect letter types in a certain order, then our brains join up the gaps.
We do it with word order too, as we do in the poem 'Jabberwocky
We do it with word order too, as we do in the poem 'Jabberwocky
19:07 Wed 30th Mar 2011
I'm not an expert but I think it's to do with familiarity of syntax. It's because we often recognise word shapes by, say, the beginning, middle and end, and because we expect letter types in a certain order, then our brains join up the gaps.
We do it with word order too, as we do in the poem 'Jabberwocky'. Couldn't tell you the exact word, though.
We do it with word order too, as we do in the poem 'Jabberwocky'. Couldn't tell you the exact word, though.
There's a fun word to do with being able to read scrambled words: Typoglycemia
http://theartoftheboo.../typoglycemia_12.html
If you want a more scientific term I think different researchers probably name it a bit differently depending on the angle of their own particular research project. Google "word recognition" + research, for instance.
This might interest you:
http://leicester.acad...rception_28_1413-1416
http://theartoftheboo.../typoglycemia_12.html
If you want a more scientific term I think different researchers probably name it a bit differently depending on the angle of their own particular research project. Google "word recognition" + research, for instance.
This might interest you:
http://leicester.acad...rception_28_1413-1416
Don't know if there is a name for it but as long as you only alter words of three letters or more......
Let's you puodcre scmbleard txet jsut lkie a ctraien prgpaarah taht kepes ppoipng up all oevr the pclae. "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 total 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."
Let's you puodcre scmbleard txet jsut lkie a ctraien prgpaarah taht kepes ppoipng up all oevr the pclae. "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 total 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."
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