This article was originally published by Business Insider. "But as long as we are proficient readers, we won’t have a problem," he said. On the other hand, an older person, likely raised using standardised cursive, could find deciphering these messages a little tougher. Young people, who have grown up using computers with endless typographical choices, may find it second nature.
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"For your brain, it’s not a number in a word, it’s a wrongly written or strangely written letter," Duñabeitia said. "While reading, you dont pay attention to the difference between a number and a letter because you only expect letters," Duñabeitia said.Īs people read the message, they’re able to decode the oddly shaped "letters" in a matter of milliseconds because the human brain essentially treats the digits like letters written by someone with bad handwriting or in an unusual typeface, Duñabeitia said. Instead, our brain knows to treat them like letters based on their similar appearance. To purchase a print copy of the book on Amazon.Interpreting passages like this hardly activates the section of the brain associated with numbers, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, part of a team of Spanish cognitive scientists who wrote five papers on the subject, told Business Insider. This digital file may be freely copied, shared, printed or otherwise reproduced for non commercial purposes. The author of this book has made it available u\nder a Creative Commons License.
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