When we start reading a piece of text, how do our brains know to read it in such a way that accounts for both the upcoming punctuation and sentence structure that we haven’t gotten to yet?
In: Biology
Your brain looks ahead while your eyes stay on the word you are reading. If a class ever made you ever read aloud you may have noticed some kids occasionally finish the sentence at the edge of the page even though the sentence continues on the next line. Their brain told them it ends there so finish up. This is one reason why reading books is so important as a kid.
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