Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) Newsgroups: net.cog-eng Subject: Re: Re: Speed Reading Message-ID: <830@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 02:49:30 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.830 Posted: Tue Jul 16 02:49:30 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:36:27 EDT References: <1573@orca.UUCP> <292@ucdavis.UUCP> <1222@mnetor.UUCP>, <2666@topaz.ARPA> Organization: U Chicago -- Linguistics Dept Lines: 18 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.) -- -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar