On 10/22/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attention -- fovea -- saccade -- serial -- chunking -- frame. > > Those higher functions have to be there anyway. Is there any evidence that we > can recognize multiple primitives simultaneously?
Yes. Speed-reading in particular, deliberately turns off the saccade mechanism by which we normally read text, and instead keeps the fovea near the center of the column, relying on the visual cortex to recognize all (or at least a large chunk) of the words in the current line of text, in parallel. And when we do this, we get more than mere activation levels associated with each word - all the syntax-parsing machinery etc still works. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=56414398-85b9c7
