lol3003 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:49 pm
bonzay0 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:42 pm
Aoccdrnig to 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 toatl 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.
theres only one problem with that im german and in german my native language it dosent work as well for me at least as it does in english but my friends say otherwise
gir489 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:50 pm
Even in English it doesn't work so well. I read the 3rd word as "rorschach". So it's not so much a German thing, it's more of a person-to-person thing.
In non-phonetic languages, words are just encoding patterns for specific meanings. To remember these, our relational brains need to find pointers because remembering each and every character in order slows down access times. In other words, we need to index the patterns for faster cross-searching. Phrasing and context come into play as pointers, as do phonics (the structural parts, such as subjects and objectives). Once that's established, we can look at the length of the word to narrow results. Then we can filter out anything that doesn't start with a certain letter, and likewise we can further filter out by an ending letter, then even further by all letters used. The remaining results are very limited (say, 10 words matching the criteria) and out brains can switch from relational data retrieval to conscious (or forward) retrieval. In most cases the words available after all that relational sorting are limited to one or two, so we can make an immediate assumption as to the intended word and out brains can move on to the next word.
Ever write down a math problem and find yourself mumbling the solution well before you realize from the written parts that you've actually solved it? That's a similar system at play. We memorize things like multiplication tables and shorthand solutions to reduce access times and filter the problem down to a simpler form, then we can have the forward, active thought process take much less time. Writing out the solution is a more formal, slower, fully forward method whereas the mental component can use shortcuts. Hence, you can actually know an answer well before confirming it if the filtering only has one choice to pick from come time for a solution.
Decoding and hacking the human thought and memory processes is amazingly intriguing.
Also yes this is my first post. :3