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Why Your Brain Can Read Scrambled Words, According to Science
Researchers say readers rely on context, pattern recognition and prediction, not a simple first-and-last-letter rule, to decode scrambled words.
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Sramcbled wrods: the real reason you can still read jumbled text
Andy Craddock/UnpslashYou’ve probably seen it on social media before: a paragraph of scrambled text that looks like nonsense at first glance, yet somehow you can read it with surprising ease. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit …
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