the lost words

摘要

COUNT THE F'S IN THE ABOVE sentence. Spot three? There are six. Don't worry. Even David Rapp, a cognitive expert at Northwestern University, couldn't spot them all. Our brains decipher more than we are aware of. Brains that have mastered reading don't necessarily read sentences in a linear way, stopping at every word. Instead, our eyes bounce through, skipping some terms and landing hard on others.