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Originally Posted by gwhite
The process was understood by experiments using special apparatus which allowed the tracking of a reader's eyes as they moved over the page.
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And it's exemplified by images like the following:
Most people parse the text as "A Bird in the Bush" the first time around. It takes quite a bit of effort to slow down enough to spot the repeated word.
I can totally imagine that some speed-readers have wired their neurons to parse entire lines of text in the same way that typical readers parse entire words. I can also totally imagine that not everyone's brain is capable of making the switch, and that for many people speed-reading is equivalent to word-dropping. The existence of one does not necessarily preclude the other.
