Friday, May 11, 2007

How the brain reads

A new technology, more precisely a new way to format text, is more easily received by the brain. They explain the way the brain perceives block text, briefly, and sort of explain how their method helps. There is an example, which I find convincing, as well as too short.

It is interesting, I would use it if it were free and I could surf to any page and click a link and have it reformat the text of the page I was reading; but it won't be able to do that, and it probably won't be out for a long time.

They said they have been using it in study groups and found 10-15% increased scores using text books formatted this way.

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