Monday, March 27, 2006

The Brain...How Amazing!

Hang in there with me guys as I try to keep current with my posts...Blogger is being a real pain in the blog right now and not allowing me to upload pics or anything else I need to complete several new posts...y'all know how I LOVES my pictures! Hopefully, the following will hold you over until I can posts some stuff I really want to post. Check back tonight or tomorrow morning. PEACE!


If you can read this, you have a strange mind too

Can you raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed
it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and
I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!


I received the above paragraph over email and was amazed by the fact that my brain is built such that I could actually read this. I was even more astonished to find that I could read this scrambled paragraph at almost the same rate of speed at which I would have read it if all the words were presented in the correct order. What does this say about my brain? [No, I am not dyslexic ;-)] What does this say about the brains of those of us who can't figure out some or all of the scrambled words? I don't have the answer to either of these questions, but I am definitely intrigued by the concept of all the magnificent things our brains can do!

Maybe being "hooked on phonics" isn't the end-all be-all of human existence it is cracked up to be ;-)

5 comments:

chele said...

It's amazing that we can read the paragraph but I wouldn't my kids to turn in a paper written like that.

Anonymous said...

Well....I could understand it myself. *sigh* But I know I am crazy. LOL

LadyLee said...

I've seen that one before, and it still gets me everytime!

Don't worry about blogger. That's what we get for dealing with free ish... just keep trying :)

Anonymous said...

I seen this before. A simplistic explanation (I have a master's in psychology and education) is that our brain forms paradigms or patterns that we refer to often in everyday life...we expect to see certain forms or words follow others, etc. As a former teacher, this speaks to whole language as a form of literacy instruction! Although I think phonics is best!

DJ Diva said...

yeah...that one took me through a loop too when I saw it...a wise man once told me that words are a puzzle on the page...hmmmm

Blogger been buggin out...so I'm got my own .com....I just need to set it up at some point this week!