I reckon that the shuffled words (meaningless and low probability) trigger an internal representation that is close enough to the meaning_full_ representation to be correctly classified. One part of this triggered internal representation is about WHAT is present, the other part about WHERE these are present. The WHERE is a little different from the original word, but enough to trigger it.
In a bayesian framework, this is extremely trivial, although the brain probably does it using some physically practical heuristic implementation. Durk On 3/13/08, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing worth noticing is that it looks like this effect only works > provided that words with three letters or fewer are not garbled. I > think what this shows is that there is a statistical element to > reading. So provided that the beginning and ending characters are > correct, and what's in between contains some of the characters that > you would expect to find in that word you can still read it. > > > > On 13/03/2008, Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 13/03/2008, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Linas Vepstas < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A bit of vision processing fun: > > > > > > > > http://www.friends.hosted.pl/redrim/Reading_Test.jpg > > > > > > > Interesting: is it possible to construct similar thing in audio form? > > > > > > Not to spoil the fun, but the human brain is adept at recognizing > > the same melody, whether its whistled, performed by an orchestra, > > or sometimes even just beat out with knuckles on a door. > > > > At the "imperceptible" level, there are catalogues of audio tricks > > known to sound alike to the naive ear, and these were employed > > by the designers of things like ogg, mp3, etc. > > > > The above is one of the few that I've seen that crosses the > > boundary of optical to linguistic processing. > > > > > > --linas > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > agi > > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
