Terrorized by Typos? Here’s the reason:

Terrorized by typos?

Turns out they’re so confoundingly common that researchers at the Cambridge-connected MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit have been investigating the issue. Here’s a hint about what they found:

“The huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”
Ponder this and you’ll earn the bonus point of learning what “The Stroop Effect” is.

 

http://io9.com/5924861/an-illusion-that-explains-why-typos-are-so-hard-to-catch

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