A Debate on Speed Reading (Ep. 74)
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Do You Want Me to Break Down the Science That I Read About First?
Reading is like a three step process. And the three steps are fixations, what are called sacads, and then the cognitive processing. The eye actually has several types of movement. Thereis called smooth pursuit, which we evolv to essentially track prey. But they found that as your eyes never really stayed completely still when you're reading, you use sicots,. or 'sicotic movements' They have actually been able to measure how long these take in different times. So before we talk about speed reading, imean wants to break it down for you.
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