{"id":21749,"date":"2016-02-08T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T08:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/your-ability-to-read-this-message-reveals-something-incredible-about-the-mind"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:59:00","slug":"your-ability-to-read-this-message-reveals-something-incredible-about-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/your-ability-to-read-this-message-reveals-something-incredible-about-the-mind","title":{"rendered":"Your ability to read this message reveals something incredible about the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-ability-to-read-this-message-reveals-something-incredible-about-the-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Facebook) The above passage, written in a combination of letters and numbers, has been circulating social media for years and purports that only certain \u201cstrong minds\u201d can read it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not exactly true \u2014 just about everybody can read the message with ease. But according to one scientist, our ability to read such messages reveals something pretty incredible about the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Interpreting passages like this hardly activates the section of the brain associated with numbers, Jon Andoni Du\u00f1abeitia, part of a team of Spanish cognitive scientists who wrote <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jaduna.webs.ull.es\/Perea_etal_JEP_2008.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">five<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jaduna.webs.ull.es\/Molinaro_etal_NeuroPsy_2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">papers<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jaduna.webs.ull.es\/Perea_etal_QJEP_2009.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">on<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jaduna.webs.ull.es\/Dunabeitia_etal_VisCog_accepted.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">the<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jaduna.webs.ull.es\/Carreiras_Dunabeitia_Perea_TICS\" rel=\"nofollow\">subject<\/a>, told Business Insider. Instead, our brain knows to treat them like letters based on their similar appearance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/ability-read-message-reveals-something-212520891.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Facebook) The above passage, written in a combination of letters and numbers, has been circulating social media for years and purports that only certain \u201cstrong minds\u201d can read it. That\u2019s not exactly true \u2014 just about everybody can read the message with ease. But according to one scientist, our ability to read such messages reveals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62975,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749\/revisions\/62975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}