Your mind can do amazing things

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When I last saw that one do the rounds it did send me on a Google spree and I ended up with a very good paper explaining the current theories behind word recognition and how it relates to sight. It had an example where you can actually do the opposite and fuck with people's ability to read just by alternating or randomising the capitalisation, which I thought was kinda cool - and it would be even better (if slightly diabolical) to write an "only smart people can read this" rant in that style. Can't remember where it was, though...

...anyway, that post explains why the trick works nicely, I just wish they'd stop being accompanied "a brain study says this" crap too.

Scarlet A.pngd hominem20:01, 6 February 2012

Context affects all perception. That's why you read this as "THE CAT" and not "TAE CHT". Without this, we wouldn't be able to read anyone's handwriting unless it was a near-perfect replication of "ideal" alphabetic letters.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:35, 6 February 2012

Yeah, I've always understood the reason we can read things like that to be we're expecting certain words to appear after, so if there's something similar looking then we interpret it as that word.

Fuckertalk to me :D|see my shit20:42, 6 February 2012
CAN YOU SPOT THE
THE MISTAKE??
Scarlet A.pngmoral21:01, 6 February 2012
 

Stared at that thing too much and now it just looks like lines...

Scarlet A.pngsshole21:09, 6 February 2012