How can our brains always remember the first letter of the word we are trying to recall but not the whole word?
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It’s called the bathtub effect, because of the shape of the graph of what part of the word we are most likely to recall.
There is a greater likelihood to recall the first part of the word, less likelihood of recalling the middle part and again a high likelihood of recalling the last part.
It happens because that’s how we store visual information about the words. See how you asked about the “first letter”, implying that you are as well.asking about the written and printed letters and not the sound. We commit to our brain the initial and last parts of a word better than the middle parts.
This helps us in reading fast. You look at the first part and the last part of the word, which are easy to identify because of the surrounding white space before and after the word. The middle of the word is what you just “fill in” from context. You don’t really read the middle part.
It is this reason why it is esay for you to raed tihs setnece even though it wasn’t all written correctly. Did you notice the spelling mistakes in the previous sentence? Did you manage to read it nevertheless?
Mavrellous!
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