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Old 10-31-2013, 06:46 AM   #48
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Originally Posted by Teknikal View Post
I'm an exceptionally fast reader I always have been even as a child but I really can't explain what I do other people don't it's just a natural thing for me....
It may not be so much what you do, but what you don't do. You may not subvocalize the way many people do. Although they helped initialized a lifelong love of reading for me, comics may have inadvertently put a permanent damper on my reading speed. I remember around the age of 10 learning to think in words from seeing other people's thoughts pictured as words in thought balloons in comics. Of course, memory is a construct and a very flawed one at that, so I'm not saying what I'm describing is the undeniable reality, but simply saying that's how I remember it. Learning to vocalize thoughts may have led to subvocalization during reading.
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