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Tenebri
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i cant remember the thread or the person it was to, but a fair few weeks ago was discussion on text in the RS, and how they see blurring or shadows in the text and some size differences. i remember explaining this is to help with reading etc etc etc but now recently an image of what bionic reading is has gone somewhat viral and thought id share here too.

just to show yes this is actually very good for reading.


may want to open the image in a new tab on its own to get real size
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19-May-2022 19:51:52 - Last edited on 19-May-2022 19:52:24 by Tenebri

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Not heard of this, interesting. Reminds me of typoglycemia ‐ The mnid's atbiliy to dpeihecr a msi-selpeld wrod if the fsirt and lsat lteetrs of the wrod are creorct. Bob says:
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19-May-2022 22:30:12

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We did that in high school. It was called speed reading. We were given a short story to read in a very limited amount of time (2 to 3 minutes depending on the length of the story), then tested on what we read.

Your article on bionic reading is exactly what we were taught to do. Basically, you scanned the pages, your eyes picking out words or phrases and your brain trying to make sense of it all.

It was a 6 week course and I ended up with an overall 98%.

This was back in the early 1960s so it's really nothing new. I still use the technique, though my recall isn't as good as it was back then, but still serves the purpose.
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20-May-2022 02:17:39

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I've never heard about this before but stuff like this fascinates me.
The Bionic Reading website has some interesting variation on the technique too, with varying degrees of fixation.

https://bionic-reading.com/
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20-May-2022 10:00:28

Tenebri
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vonSageworth said :

Your article on bionic reading is exactly what we were taught to do. Basically, you scanned the pages, your eyes picking out words or phrases and your brain trying to make sense of it all.


yes and thats the point of the blurring to make those letter stand out more.
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23-May-2022 09:40:53

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Tenebri said :
vonSageworth said :

Your article on bionic reading is exactly what we were taught to do. Basically, you scanned the pages, your eyes picking out words or phrases and your brain trying to make sense of it all.


yes and thats the point of the blurring to make those letter stand out more.

We weren't taught anything about blurring. When speed reading, your brain automatically disregards small words like [if, and, but, a, the] and so on. But bigger words will catch the brain's attention. Your brain may pick out a word like "disappointed" then up comes "disappointed in what?" That's where you catch the phrase "...disappointed in his art work". Now the question comes up "Why was he disappointed with his art work?" You keep scanning for a word that would be a possible connection. Your eyes fall upon "sloppy". Now you know that the person was disappointed in his art work because he thought it was sloppy. But this isn't what you read, it's the connection your brain made.
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24-May-2022 19:42:17 - Last edited on 24-May-2022 19:51:59 by vonSageworth

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