Dear All,
I haven't heard back from anyone saying they don't want the information they provided me with to be sent to the whole list so....
(I apologise for the enormous length of this email but there was a lot of information about the topic!)
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I found this article on the Net:
http://www.reversespeech.com/images/bakspeech.pdf
at
http://www.iand.net/archives/000067.html
one of many places with the original email referred to by the Guardian.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12977,1048638,00.html
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The orginal email being circulated contained the following:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is tahtthe frist
and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a total mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh?
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Saberi K and Perrot D R (1999), 'Cognitive restoration of reversed speech',
Nature, 398 (760).
There is a website posted by a Cambridge University researcher (Matt Davis)
which is interesting on the same subject:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/
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The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition
Pelli DG, Farell B, Moore DC
NATURE
423 (6941): 752-756 JUN 12 2003
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1068149,00.html
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The article is in Prospect, Oct 2003, p. 7
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Sarah
Sarah Bruch
Multidisciplinary Library
Prince Philip Hospital
Dafen
Llanelli
Carmarthenshire
SA14 8QF
Tel/Fax: 01554 749301
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