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I'm the same, re not having internally-vocalised thought. Can you read without vocalising though? That was an idea I discovered on HN, in the context of speed r
by pbhjpbhj 5y ago
I'm the same, re not having internally-vocalised thought. Can you read without vocalising though? That was an idea I discovered on HN, in the context of speed reading.
Seems we go from reading out loud, to reading in our heads (internally-vocalising), but you can continue and read without the internal-vocalisation. I can do it a bit, but under test conditions I only picked up about half of what I would do when I read to myself in my head.
Amazing how different people's headspaces are.
- bhaak 5y agoI also encountered the vocalising/non-vocalising thing when going into speedreading. I can supress the vocalising with a bit of conscious effort but it's not the vocalising that limits my reading speed. It's all the rest that goes on in my mind that processes the information I just read. If I'm looking for some specific words, not vocalising is helpful but if I need to remember and understand the text I'm reading, I do vocalising as that doesn't impact the rest that goes on in my mind. So I'm not a speedreader but it did help me to improve my glancing skills and if I need to I can count really fast now by visualizing the numbers turning into each other.