fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid tooI have no trouble reading the above, and I've been unable to find anyone who did. Today I decided to go on a search to find the origin of the story, and the associated research. I soon discovered that there was no such research. The story above is a hoax.
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
But it is nonetheless interesting, and a very clear demonstration of the remarkable capabilities of our brain. I found a short, readable paper that explained a bit of the above phenomenon. It didn't take me long to convince myself (by constructing my own scrambled or substituted passages) that this paper was onto something...
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