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WhitbyJet

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Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind.
And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long, long, ways down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.
Only very good minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!

7H15 M3554G3
53RV35 7O PR0V3
H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
Y0UR M1ND 1S
R34D1NG 17
4U70M471C4LLY
W17H 0U7 3V3N
7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
B3 PROUD! 0NLY
C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
R3AD 7H15.
PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F
U C4N R34D 7H15.


If you can read this, you have a strange mind, too. Only 55 people out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseaethe huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
 
Yes amazing how quickly I could start reading that :crazy:
 
Yes, no problems :D
It's all to do with what's called top down processing (rather than data driven or bottom up) :lol: ie previous knowledge and expectation will influence your perception

What do you think this is ?
per3.jpg

If you had been presented with pictures of animals before this picture you would be most likely to say a rat. If you had been shown faces then you would see a man wearing glasses. (

Heres another example the Stroop test
http://www.onlinestrooptest.com/stroop_effect_test.php

and some more examples(and a bit of theory)
http://home.gwu.edu/~droliver/TopDown/T ... essing.htm
 
I read it OK but did stumble slightly at the word "17" perhaps if it had been written as i7 or I7 I may have aced it

And I saw a face :D
 
That's funny, I saw a mouse, cat, a sheep and a duck :lol:
 
I read it no problem - and I saw Rolf Harris! :eh:
 
They remind me of - private numberplates ...
I am always trying to work them out when on the motorways :P

Cant see where rolf harris is though ? :?

Anna.
 
I saw a girl dancing in the moonlight - but I'm on some amazing morphine based painkillers at the moment.
 
I'm so peasled taht I culod raed tihs bcuaees I auctlaly ejony wtirnig lkie tihs, ist hsetyiracl. :D
 
I have mild dyslexia. But these test are revealing good results for me according to my Daughter. (watch me make a few mistakes now).

Thank goodness for spellcheck.

ROY. :)
 
GraceK said:
I'm so peasled taht I culod raed tihs bcuaees I auctlaly ejony wtirnig lkie tihs, ist hsetyiracl. :D


GraceK tihs si fbauluos !!! Yuo carkc em pu ... :clap: :lol:
 
izzzi said:
I have mild dyslexia. But these test are revealing good results for me according to my Daughter. (watch me make a few mistakes now).

Thank goodness for spellcheck.

ROY. :)
No worries Roy , we understand - just join in the best you can with us all . :thumbup:
 
izzzi said:
I have mild dyslexia. But these test are revealing good results for me according to my Daughter. (watch me make a few mistakes now).

Thank goodness for spellcheck.

ROY. :)

Me too Roy all the best people are/were dyslexic :thumbup:

Henry Winkler - How cool was the Fonze?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Michael Faraday
Leonardo da Vinci
John Lennon
Pablo Picasso
Muhammad Ali
Steve Redgrave - Diabetic as well
George Washington
Hans Christian Anderson
Richard Branson
Henry Ford
Agatha Christie
Steven Spielberg

And many many more
 
anna29 said:
They remind me of - private numberplates ...
I am always trying to work them out when on the motorways :P


Me too, marvelous thing the human mind WJ :D
 
Has anyone ever found themselves seeing the same number plate sequence over and over. I once went through months of either finding myself following cars with registrations starting with DEO .... or noticing them oncoming. It happened so often that I told my young grandson about it one day and sure enough we spotted one, then two, then three and he continued counting and we spotted 44 numberplates starting DEO in about one hour's driving. :shock:
 
GraceK said:
Has anyone ever found themselves seeing the same number plate sequence over and over. I once went through months of either finding myself following cars with registrations starting with DEO .... or noticing them oncoming. It happened so often that I told my young grandson about it one day and sure enough we spotted one, then two, then three and he continued counting and we spotted 44 numberplates starting DEO in about one hour's driving. :shock:

Isnt it a bit like when you are buying a new car - you suddenly start seeing loads of the same car of your choice :o
Even if you try to deliberately choose an unusual sporty vehicle , like I do , I am on my 2nd tigra [ hard top convertible]
adored my 1st so much that I have got another one :thumbup:
Its a real 'girly car' and a dream to drive ...
Always had to have the convertible plus air con for my hot flushes with the menapause ... :crazy:

Anna.
 
Sid Bonkers said:
izzzi said:
I have mild dyslexia. But these test are revealing good results for me according to my Daughter. (watch me make a few mistakes now).

Thank goodness for spellcheck.

ROY. :)

Me too Roy all the best people are/were dyslexic :thumbup:

Henry Winkler - How cool was the Fonze?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Michael Faraday
Leonardo da Vinci
John Lennon
Pablo Picasso
Muhammad Ali
Steve Redgrave - Diabetic as well
George Washington
Hans Christian Anderson
Richard Branson
Henry Ford
Agatha Christie
Steven Spielberg

And many many more

Agree sid,roy,nigel ...
Its amazing how we can all share a difficult hurdle to overcome and still get around or over it
successfully. [there are some great's in this list - alongside yourselves guys :thumbup: ]
We understand here - and will never judge nor laugh .

Anna.
 
It didn't take me long to read either bit, but then I taught for many years and got used to dyslexic spelling and dreaful handwriting.
I had heard the thing about only needing the first and last letters in place.
Hana
 
Out of curiousity - how is dyslexia seen by a person ?

Am asking this to help myself understand more about this ...

Anna.
 
I could read it, too . . . The thing about first and last letters doesn't always work, some of it is about the shape of the word as well.

At one place I worked we advertised for an Archaeological Technician, with the usual things including "clean driving licence".

The ad. went from me to personnel, to the typing pool, back to personnel, quick check by me, off to the Guardian.

2 days later the Guardian phoned me . . "Did we really mean "clean living licence?""

'Driving' and 'living' are shaped the same. We'd all missed it.

This is even funnier if you know any archaeologists! :lol:

My excuse was, that it's very difficult to proofread your own work. But to have it pointed out by the Grauniad, of all papers . . .! :shock: :oops:

Private Eye readers will recognise the final spelling of Grauniad. For the youngsters amongst us . . . the paper was once notorious for glaring spelling mistakes.

Viv 8)
 
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