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Research Paper. Ben Davis April 21, Now, nearly a decade later, I decided to do some in-depth research into speed reading to bring you the facts.
Some speed reading claims can be tossed aside immediately. Claims that you can read a book as fast as you can flip through a phone book are completely impossible on anatomical and neurological levels.
First we have anatomical reasons to throw out absurdly high reading rates. In order to read, the eye has to stop at a part of the text, this is called fixation. Next, it must make a quick movement to the next fixation point, this is called a saccade. Speed reading experts claim that they can work around this problem by taking in more visual information in each saccade. Instead of reading a couple words in one fixation, you can process multiple lines at a time. This is unlikely for two reasons.
One, the area of the eye which can correctly resolve details, called the fovea , is quite small—only about an inch in diameter at reading distance. Processing more information per fixation is limited by the fact that our eyes are rather poor lenses. They need to move around in order to get more details.
This means that eyes are physically constrained in the amount of information they achieve per fixation. Second, working memory constraints are at least as important as anatomical ones.
Parsing multiple lines simultaneously, means that each of these threads of information must remain open until the line is fully read. What about systems like Spritz? Spritz works by trying to avoid the problem of saccades.
If each word appears in the same place on the screen, your eye can stay fixed on that point while words flip through more quickly than you could hunt them down on a page. Indeed, using the application gives a strong impression that you can read very quickly.
Their website claims to have research showing faster reading speeds, but unfortunately I was not able to find any independent, peer-reviewed work substantiating these claims.
Remember reading was a three step process: fixate, saccade and process. Well that processing step slows down regular reading too. It's about Russia. While it's easy to track eye movement and measure reading speed, measuring comprehension is trickier.
How detailed does your knowledge of the actual words versus the gist versus everything in between have to be? Assigning a comprehension score to open-ended summaries of text tends to be subjective, so researchers like Schotter usually measure comprehension with multiple-choice questions presented after a sentence or paragraph. But those tests are still only as good as the questionsand the incorrect answers provided as foils for the right one.
Despite such difficulties, most scientific evidence still points to one thing: Speed reading is essentially just a form of skimming. And hey, skimming can be great even preferable in some situations. Software like Spritz and other RSVP approaches—Instapaper now has its own speed-reading feature as well—can be useful for reading shorter emails and texts, particularly on tiny smartwatch screens.
But if your goal is to read large chunks of text faster and still wrest as much meaning and insight from it as possible, science really only has two solutions for you: Read more to increase your vocabulary, or read things you already know a lot about. The Fast and the Spurious. Regression Transgressions and Saccades. Topics cognitive science.
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