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Typoglycemia is a neologism given to a purported recent discovery about the cognitive processes behind reading written text. The word appears to be a portmanteau of "typo", as in typographical error, and "hypoglycemia". It is an urban legend/Internet meme that appears to have an element of truth to it.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Discussion of the meme by Matt Davis of Cambridge University )〕 The legend, propagated by email and message boards, purportedly demonstrates that readers can understand the meaning of words in a sentence even when the interior letters of each word are scrambled. As long as all the necessary letters are present, and the first and last letters remain the same, readers appear to have little trouble reading the text. One email message reads as follows: However, the following example based on the same principle, but where all the letters are reversed rather than randomly jumbled, is much more difficult to read: No such research was carried out at Cambridge University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Discussion of the meme by Matt Davis of Cambridge University )〕 The creation of such email messages started with a letter to the New Scientist magazine from Graham Rawlinson of Nottingham University in which he discusses his Ph.D. thesis, suggesting to keep the first and last two letters of each word: == References == * (Summary ) of "The Significance of Letter Position in Word Recognition" PhD Thesis, 1976, Nottingham University, by Graham Rawlinson * (Discussion of the meme by Matt Davis of Cambridge University ) * (The 1999 letter to ''New Scientist'' ) * (Abstract of Graham Rawlinson's Thesis in Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE, Jan 2007 ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Typoglycemia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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