How do you guys manage to turn the most innocent of threads into flaming threads of massive hate?
Jutu;
PhD Thesis, 1976, Nottingham University, by Graham Rawlinson
The Significance of Letter Position in Word Recognition
The Purpose
It is always easy to state a purpose after the event. Key drivers for me were:
To aid understanding of the reading process through examination of one part, namely word recognition.
To examine the current theories of the time, which included the idea that we recognise words through shape.
The Experiments
Some 16 experiments were included in the PhD. Some of these have parts, so in all I think it might be fair to say bout 36 experiments were conducted, but it all depends on how you carve them up.
For example, Experiment 1 had variations as follows:
1/R/1, 2/R/0, 2/R/2, 4/R/0 for 2 groups
and
2/R/2, 2/X/2, 4/R/0, 4/X/0 for 2 other groups.
R meaning random, x means substituting x's in place of the original letters, and 2/R/2 means the first 2 and last 2 are kept as originally, fir a whole text.
Hypotheses and Conclusions
My conclusions, and these are open to question of course, were that:
Letter features are processed through a route of letter classification/identification.
Middle letter identification proceeds largely independently of position.
Higher level units seem to be significant only for the beginnings and endings of words.
Information from the middle letters may operate via a sampling/probability system (rather than absolute accuracy). That is, you can have sufficient letters, even though in the wrong position, for the brain to "recognise" the word.
My end model was of a multiple access system "allowing some direct use of features without precise letter identification, use of word length information, and some structuring of phonemic or syllabic units, as well as incorporating a sampling recognition system using letters or their attributes directly."
Finally
I have seen various comments of how I was suggesting this or that, and people saying why this or that can or cannot be true. But trying to sort out what may or may not be a factor in word recognition is quite complicated. I was only doing my PhD, this was a compressed into a sort space of time, I did the best I could. Sorry if it was not good enough, though the interest in it now is rather refreshing.
I did try to publish the main findings, but the papers were turned down, by reviewers who perhaps had theories of their own to defend?
Science is an interesting process, easy enough to get wrong, easy enough to go off in a direction which is a false trail, and sometimes easy enough to cheat. In the end, I hope, we all get wiser.
Wishing all those who were interested in scrambled words, a happy life!
You can find the whole article, in full, here.
And lastly. Jutu, I've ignored you in-game and on the forum, since you're by far the most irritating forum troll I've ever come across. I won't respond to any posts directed to me, by you.
If you had been following the thread, you wouldn't need to ask that question, and in the same sentence, make yourself look like a troll.
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Soo... about that enfo pic?
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Ill take a badly draw MS paint of a enfo
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i miss ablun. here he is w/ his enfo
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...igns/ablun.png
and damn oh damn did this topic go way off
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It actually doesn't work for people who learned to read phonetically. It only works for people who read by word recognition.
You can actually read small words with no letters at all, only boxes that could just contain each letter.
For example, draw a box around the letters a, p, p, l, and e and put them together, remove the letters and show them to someone. If they are fluent in the language and read by word recognition, they should recognize that the word is apple.
Notice though in the quoted research that the initial letters play a very significant role, as do the final letters. This allows you to actually read quite long words even with the letters jumbled up.
Kintaii: Genele is more hardcore than you, your guildmates, and anyone else you've ever played with...
My pvp stats: Duel wins: 945 / losses: 368 - Solo kills: 5632 / team: 7511
My org mate: Solo kills: 24 933 / Team: 683
I can send you a pic of an enf.
But then again, false profession enf doesn't look as intimidating.
nvm.
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