If you can read this, you are one of the 55 out of 100 people who can. According to studies at Cambridge University, when you read a word, it doesn't matter what the order of letters in a word are in as long as the first and last letter are in the same place. The explanation for this phenomenon is that the human brain doesn't read a word letter-by-letter, but as a whole.
The human brain is separated into two sides: left and right. The two different sides of the brain are responsible for different manners of thinking:
Left Side Right Side
- Logical Sequence - Random
- Rational - Intuitive
- Analytical - Holistic Synthesizing
- Objective - Subjective
- Looks at parts - Looks at wholes
I found this topic to be very interesting. I have always wondered why I can "raed wrods lkie tihs." When my family visited the Franklin Institute last year, there was a large paper that had words with the letters all scrambled except for the first and last letters. I read the whole thing and couldn't help but wonder, "How can I read this?" That day I couldn't find an explanation, but now I know that it has to do with the left and right side of the brain.
-AK
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511177,00.html (picture)
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/cna-yuo-raed-tihs/
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/
http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13114
http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/exercise.html
http://www.lifescript.com/Soul/Self/Growth/
http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-vs-left-brain
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