Timeline for Is it possible to improve reading speed and visual comprehension by doing exercises?
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| Feb 6, 2012 at 10:16 | comment | added | altunyurt | @Indolering What i tried to ask in my question before Jeromy's edit was "is it possible to store text blocks as visual images or in any other way in memory to access and iterate over them later, without memorizing. I can't remember many things i read and i can't build relations in my mind succesfully while reading.For this purpose, do you think the exercise i mentioned might help?".Not having any background in cognitive sciences, i just waited to see if Jeromy's is the correct way to ask about this subject, or may the solution to my problem not be the one i'm chasing after. | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 7:08 | comment | added | Indolering | I think we are getting off topic here. The main problem is that hinoglu title and body are nonsequitur because he doesn't understand the cognitive processes involved: the entire question needs to be reformatted. Obviously, my RSVP suggestion is inadequate. Whatever "techniques" we want to discuss, they should be prefaced with a general "not exactly" disclaimer and then discuss how much can be improved and with what effort. Maybe a post per technique, then people can battle it out in the comments and with votes. | |
| Feb 5, 2012 at 16:46 | comment | added | Alexander Galkin | I strongly doubt this answer. All classical speed reading techniques favor comprehension over speed and require you to pass the reading exercises with at least 90% of comprehension to advance. The comprehension drop indicates that the student has advanced too fast and was reported to be insignificant, compared to the actual reading speed. | |
| Feb 5, 2012 at 3:13 | comment | added | Indolering | hinoglu: What you need to understand is that while reading does in involve visual processing, visual processing has very little to do with understanding what the text means. When you read the word "elephant", you don't keep a mental image of the word in your head, you think of an elephant! I remember stumbling over a study showing no increase in speed using cell-phone implementation. Its likely that using RSVP where one would naturally skim (like a web-page) is counter productive. | |
| Feb 4, 2012 at 11:55 | comment | added | altunyurt | Well, i went ahead and wrote a simple RSVP application for chrome chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/… to improve my reading speed. Proves nothing yet, and it might be implemented poorly. I've managed to speed up my reading by forcing myself to capture as much as i can see in a small fraction of time. Unfortunately, at least for me, being able to read in high speed seems to have nothing to do with comprehension. That's why i'm trying to improve my visual memory, hoping it helps to be able to store, relate and access more information. | |
| Feb 4, 2012 at 4:50 | comment | added | Jeromy Anglim | interesting points; would you be able to add references supporting your claims? | |
| Feb 4, 2012 at 3:14 | history | answered | Indolering | CC BY-SA 3.0 |