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November 19, 2005
Wow!
The following excerpt comes from TEDblog:
Raed tihs... yuor mnid rokcs!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? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
I don't recall that information being in the book "Wet Mind: The New Cognitive Neuroscience". Maybe I won't bother proof-reading my entries for spelling errors anymore. ("Yeah, right", the perfectionist in me says.)
Posted by Anna at November 19, 2005 6:09 PM