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hmm lets see..

racecar is spelled the same backwards.

^yeah,i know that..

anyway,wow!fascinating facts and trivia!

Last edited by pinkblack08 (2008-03-06 10:20:24)

Xian wrote:

Here's an entertaining info for the human mind..

Basically, the concept is top-down versus bottom-up processing. With bottom-up, you start with the core elements, while with top-down, you look for order. For instance, when you look at a dog, you generally don't say to yourself, "Well I see four legs, two eyes, a nose, a mouth, etc, etc..." you immediately say and think "That's a dog," because the majority of humanity searches for order first, rather than sorting through the elements. Well, this is where this particularly get interesting.

Read the following:

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorant.

This is an instance of top-down processing within the mind. Instead of finding a jumble, we figure out the words almost instinctively because our brains search for order in the letters rather than the words, so as long as the first and last letter in a word remain in place, the rest can be jumbled, and our minds fill in the insanity for us. A healthy human brain actively seeks order as opposed to the elements. If you absolutely can't read the jumbles, you're experience bottom-up processing, whereby you see the letters, and that's it.

Anyways, I thought this was nifty cool, and was wondering if any of you had ever heard or seen of this before?   

yea.
i've seen it already.
it is in zwani.com and it was categorized as FUNNY COMMENT.
up to now.. i'm still wonderin why they put it to that category.
hahahaha.

mine:



earthworms have COMPLETE body systems.
i learned it from my biology teacher while dissecting an earthworm.

INDIA..


when someone is asking you a question..
if you move your head up and down..
that means "no".
if you move your head from left to right..
it means "yes".

tnx 4 sharin

Here, I have some...

Did you know...?

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In the spring of 2000, it was reported that a 25-year-old Tehran transsexual, who had just undergone extensive surgery to become a woman, said he wanted to change back to a man after realizing just how poorly women are treated in Iran.

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Ten percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed. Male or female, all left-handed people are "in their right mind."

Hehehe...

wee...my iq is getting higher!

cheese is the most shoplifted item in italy...yup thats a fact!just learned it from the show are u smarter than a fifth grader.

did you know that there are speculations that the earth would end on 2012??


did you know that lemon flavored food are flavored with artificial lemon, and non-food (dishwashing liquids) are flavored with real lemons???

you always open your mouth when applying eyeliner..