Language at the Speed of Sight

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1. tdekkenJan 2023
   It depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go :). I highly recommend checking out APM's documentaries on this issue (https://features.apmreports.org/reading/). These are in-depth and accessible.

   If you want to go further, you can read Moat's Speech to Print, Seidenberg's Language at the Speed of Sight, and many others. If you want to go even deeper, then welcome to the firehose that is educational research :D.

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2. exabyteJul 2020
   I recommend reading the book "Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It" by Matthew Seidenberg.

   It starts off with the history of writing, which I actually have to go back and re-read because it's such a crazy evolution. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. I can't imagine getting thrown back into the stone age and having to figure out a way to communicate ideas.

   It also talks about the fascinating ways that the brain uses different modalities to converge on meaning - really made me thought a lot about machine learning algorithms. It refers to a lot of well-designed studies with results that provide valuable insights into the inner workings of the brain.

   It also talks a lot about dyslexia and how it is a rather broadly defined disorder. I'm pretty sure I could be considered dyslexic based simply on how poor of a reader I am. This also, however, could explain why I did better with math and science where you are doing yourself a great disservice to trying to skim the texts. I read that shit at the pace of a snail, but hey, maybe that allowed me to process the concepts better.

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3. gnicholasSep 2018
   The best reading I’ve done recently about dyslexia is Language at the Speed of Sight, by Mark Seidenberg [1]. He goes into great detail about the neurology or reading and various reading challenges (acquired and lifelong).

   1: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Speed-Sight-Can%C2%92t-About...

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