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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
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.  |
I would think that readers possessing higher reading skills, the process which I've described above, would be extracting the meaning from entire pages rather than lines. The perception process, once we have identified the context of the text, would allow us to identify words by their shape and also by those particular words' likelihood of occurring in the text. I imagine all of this would occur almost simultaneously.
I think that what I've described above is certainly a higher reading skill, but I suspect that "speed reader" may describe those who have the ability to carry out this even faster than those with higher reading skills.