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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: Re: Speed Reading
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 02:49:30 EDT
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	I remember a relative of one of these devices being used in a
speed reading course I took, long long ago.  It was mechanical, not
electronic, and was called a tachistoscope.  The idea was not that it should
be used regularly as a display device, but to demonstrate to you how much
you do take in even in the short time each "frame" (word or line) was
displayed.  And it was not supposed to defeat peripheral vision but just
the opposite, show you that you could in fact rely on your peripheral
vision to some extent.
	The training was supposed to carry over to reading regular text in
books.  Having learned that you can take in several words (3 to 5?) in a
single fixation on the tachistoscope, when you went to normal page reading
you would give each line only two or three fixations.  (It also provided
pacing, which was supposed to similarly carry over to regular reading.)
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