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danbloom · 11-01-2009, 08:38 PM

Turns out I might be very very wrong.

.....as a learned professor at a major university today in an email knocks my suggestion of a possible new word being beneficial or even needed, he tells me: "alas, i can't agree with your premise about needing a new word for reading on screens. I think you are wrong here. reading, by screen or paper, is mediated by the retinal image. Gould's experiments, at IBM, have shown that when the images are made similar, reading is similar. thus i think it would be a step backward to give the same task different names.

reference: Gould, J. D., Alfaro, L., Barnes, V., Finn, R., Grischkowsky, N., & Minuto, A. (1987). Reading is slower from CRT displays than from paper: attempts to isolate a single-variable explanation. Hum Factors, 29(3), 269-299.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...t_uids=3623564

-- a note from an un-named Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
at major US college

11-01-2009, 08:38 PM	#136
danbloom Banned Posts: 135 Karma: 366 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Cyberspace Device: The Bindle: no batteries, hand-cranked pages, mobile, underlineable	Turns out I might be very very wrong. .....as a learned professor at a major university today in an email knocks my suggestion of a possible new word being beneficial or even needed, he tells me: "alas, i can't agree with your premise about needing a new word for reading on screens. I think you are wrong here. reading, by screen or paper, is mediated by the retinal image. Gould's experiments, at IBM, have shown that when the images are made similar, reading is similar. thus i think it would be a step backward to give the same task different names. reference: Gould, J. D., Alfaro, L., Barnes, V., Finn, R., Grischkowsky, N., & Minuto, A. (1987). Reading is slower from CRT displays than from paper: attempts to isolate a single-variable explanation. Hum Factors, 29(3), 269-299. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...t_uids=3623564 -- a note from an un-named Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at major US college