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Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:01 pm » by **Domdabears**

You might not realize it, but your brain is a code-cracking machine.

For emaxlpe, it deson't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod aepapr, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm.

S1M1L4RLY, Y0UR M1ND 15 R34D1NG 7H15 4U70M471C4LLY W17H0U7 3V3N 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17.

Passages like these have been bouncing around the Internet for years. But how do we read them? And what do our incredibly low standards for what's legible say about the way our brains work?

According to Marta Kutas, a cognitive neuroscientist and the director of the Center for Research in Language at the University of California, San Diego, the short answer is that no one knows why we're so good at reading garbled nonsense. But they've got strong suspicions.

"My guess is that context is very, very, very important," Kutas told Life's Little Mysteries.

We use context to pre-activate the areas of our brains that correspond to what we expect next, she explained. For example, brain scans reveal that if we hear a sound that leads us to strongly suspect another sound is on the way, the brain acts as if we're already hearing the second sound. Similarly, if we see a certain collection of letters or words, our brains jump to conclusions about what comes next. "We use context to help us perceive," Kutas said.

It's not a perfect system, however. In the above passages, Kutas suspects that you probably didn't get every single word right just from knowing what came before it. You onlythought you were reading the passage perfectly, because you automatically (and subconsciously) went back and filled in any gaps in your knowledge based on subsequent context — the words that came later.

Additionally, in the case of the first example (the words with jumbled middle letters), it helps that your brain processes all the letters of a word at once, rather than one at a time. Thus, the letters "serve as contexts for each other," Kutas said.

In the case of the second passage (with the numbers in place of some letters), a 2007 study by cognitive scientists in Spain found that reading such passages barely activates the brain areas that correspond to digits. This suggests that the letter-like appearance of the digits, as well as their context, has a stronger influence on our brains than their actual status as digits. The researchers think some sort of top-down feedback mechanism (our consciences telling our sensory processors what to do, sort of) normalizes the visual input, allowing us to ignore the funny bits and read the passage with ease.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in ... 18332.html

Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:07 pm » by **Mrmcnuggets**

All that needs to be there, is the 1st and last consonant, middle vowel, and if there is more than one vowel separated by a consonant, the consonant in between. :flop:

Why can we read them? The same reason we can read english, or any other language. As we learn, we are brought up from poor grammatical skills, to better and better and so on. So, as long as what is written is legible, and being interpreted in the right language it would make sense for us to be able to read, as if we were spelling when we were 3. :lol:

Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:12 pm » by **Domdabears**

Yeah, it says it in the article, all it needs is the first and last consonant or vowel if there is one.

Honestly, when I first came across the article, I didn't even notice the title was jumbled up at first.

I think it's cool as hell.

Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:20 pm » by **Mrmcnuggets**

domdabears wrote:Yeah, it says it in the article, all it needs is the first and last consonant or vowel if there is one.

Honestly, when I first came across the article, I didn't even notice the title was jumbled up at first.

I think it's cool as hell.

Yeah I guess. The real question is though, does it work with other languages other than English (i wouldn't expect latin at all.) or is this just another reason to support the masons knew what they were doing when they made a language that could be spoken forwards, means one thing, said backwards and it means a completely different thing. :idea:

Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:22 pm » by **Domdabears**

mrmcnuggets wrote:
domdabears wrote:Yeah, it says it in the article, all it needs is the first and last consonant or vowel if there is one.

Honestly, when I first came across the article, I didn't even notice the title was jumbled up at first.

I think it's cool as hell.

Yeah I guess. The real question is though, does it work with other languages other than English (i wouldn't expect latin at all.) or is this just another reason to support the masons knew what they were doing when they made a language that could be spoken forwards, means one thing, said backwards and it means a completely different thing.

Good question, but I would have no idea. I'm only able to read english. I can speak some Italian but I can't read it.

Hope one of our bi-lingual members chime in on that.

Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:31 pm » by **Mrmcnuggets**

I can read french and spanish(more french than spanish), so if Iam could lay down some in dept spanish (not the basic shit) or someone some french, that is not the 'small talk' that we learn in 6&7th grade here, and well see what we get. Lol, this should be interesting. :lol:

Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:34 pm » by **Cosmine**

So we're all dislecsiks...tihnk ti wrok in lal lingaueges iusign en alphebt...mybe nut chainiz...lol.

Chirz

Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:39 pm » by **Demobe**

One Beautiful Day We All Gonna Talk Like This

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The Universal Language

Thanks :cheers:

Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:46 pm » by **The57ironman**

mrmcnuggets wrote:........ is this just another reason to support the masons knew what they were doing when they made a language that could be spoken forwards, means one thing, said backwards and it means a completely different thing.

dno't eevn go tehre... :mrgreen:

Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:27 pm » by **Kikou666999**

well, i'm french and i can read that without any problem !!