Why Your Brain Can Read Jumbled Letters - 1 views
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kaylynfukuji17 on 05 May 17This is an interesting article that explains the weird linguistic phenomena in which people are able to read a sentence where the letters in each word are jumbled up. Although scientists haven't came up with an exact conclusion for this amazing human capability, this article provides a few theories.
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Lara Cowell on 10 May 17Our human brains are naturally pattern-seeking, hence we attempt to make sense of gibberish, a phenomenon known as pareidolia. Pareidolia is also the same reason why we see shapes in clouds, hear Satanic msgs. in music played backwards, think Minion Happy Meal toys are spouting obscenities, and understand the vocal substitutions made by ventriloquists.