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  • #11
    Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

    Originally posted by Siggie View Post
    Reading for English is easier than reading legal stuff or scientific stuff. I read literature at a much faster face.

    I don't have strategies jgk... Other than get started early so you can still read it all.
    Speed reading doesn't work. You sacrifice comprehension.

    Sensory memory for vision (called iconic memory) lasts a fraction of a second.
    Maybe you can study the top speed readers in your city/area and see how they perform in different subjects of reading. Some of them have extremely high rates of comprehension and they read diagonally down the page from the top left corner to the bottom right in one sweep, lasting only about a few seconds. They read a page at a time instead of lines at a time on a page.

    I think it's directly related to sensory memory and working memory and your findings could be quite useful. Personally, this is a domain I'd be interested in studying from a psycholinguistic approach.
    Last edited by jgk3; 02-11-2009, 10:16 AM.

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    • #12
      Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

      I don't need to do it, it's been done.

      You cannot read the words without the eye fixating there and we're blind between fixations (during saccades). Therefore it's impossible to read diagonally.

      Moving the eyes takes time, so it's been tested by flashing the words in succession in the same spot, thinking it would increase speed and it didn't help much because we're capped by the time it takes to process meaning.
      [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
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      • #13
        Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

        Originally posted by Siggie View Post
        I don't need to do it, it's been done.

        You cannot read the words without the eye fixating there and we're blind between fixations (during saccades). Therefore it's impossible to read diagonally.

        Moving the eyes takes time, so it's been tested by flashing the words in succession in the same spot, thinking it would increase speed and it didn't help much because we're capped by the time it takes to process meaning.
        Yes, but the variable is how many lexical items you can catch at a glimpse. If you increase the periphery of your "fixation" and have a developped top down processing approach that regulates matters of syntactic functions and also sheer intelligent anticipation of words in a phrase in a text, the matter of reading comprehension changes from a scheme of 1 word fixations to a matter of throwing fishing nets into the pool of text and catching several lexical items at a glimpse, tied together by an automatic, non-eye related but linguistic engagement in putting the meaning of the text together based on tacit knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology, etc...

        So I'm going to have to read the methodology behind the tests you've read about on this matter Siggie, and then someday seek to conduct my own tests. I already have a few subjects in mind

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        • #14
          Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

          You can improve to a degree, but nothing close to what speed readers claim. You can't increase periphery. It's impossible to see at a resolution necessary to read words in what you're calling the periphery. You need to review your physiology of the eye. The fovea is tiny and that's where vision is sharp enough to read text the size of print.
          If you just catch a few words here and there, the comprehension would be awful. We skip over words like, the, a, of, etc to improve speed (in other words we do not fixate on these words). Skipping other words would affect comprehension. We can only fill in so much with TDP and even when we do we're essentially guessing, so accuracy/comprehension would be poor.

          I wish I had research to share, but I know this stuff from class.
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          • #15
            Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

            Alright, thanks for your input Siggie. If I need citations on what you've read about it, would you have them on hand?

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            • #16
              Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

              That's what I meant when I said I wish I had research to share. They don't exactly publish evaluations of pseudoscientific products/programs anyway though.
              So, no I don't have citations... I did email a friend who is a vision researcher, so she might have something.

              You can look up Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) though and see if that gets you anything helpful.

              Here's something to tide you over though.

              [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
              -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

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              • #17
                Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

                Don't know about school material but I have read an entire book in one day, the entire Sasuntsi Davit Trilogy for example. There have been more such cases.
                THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

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                • #18
                  Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

                  I've done that too Saco. I once called in sick to finish a Harry Potter book!

                  We are talking more about reading for school (non-literature).
                  [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
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                  • #19
                    Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

                    I once called in sick to finish a Harry Potter book!
                    Which one ? I read the fifth I think in like three days, mostly because I didn't have much time. I especially love reading at night.

                    We are talking more about reading for school (non-literature).
                    Can't really remember but I've read my share, lol. I've done a lot of writing if that counts. I was supposed to write an easy that couldn't exceed like 2 or 3 pages. My essay was about 6-7 pages long in the end. I wrote it in great detail and eventually, I couldn't finish it properly without exceeding the page limit. My teacher really liked it but I was very close to failing my exam, lol. Been cautious when adding detail into any of my writings after that .
                    Last edited by Sako; 02-23-2009, 10:57 AM.
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                    • #20
                      Re: What's your record for pages of school material read within 24 hours?

                      Originally posted by Saco View Post
                      Which one ? I read the fifth I think in like three days, mostly because I didn't have much time. I especially love reading at night.
                      I think it was The Order of The Phoenix. I started that one at night and then finished it by evening the next day (spent all day reading since I didn't go to work).
                      [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
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