Just a quick response to Michael Vassar: I am a very fast reader—just about the fastest I know. And I very much doubt that I could, at my advanced age, learn to read without hearing. Anyway, why would I want to? Among other things, I suspect that those who don’t hear the words they read don’t enjoy poetry as much as I do. What interests me about all this is that it seems to me to show that people’s mental processes differ a lot more than we usually think—a topic that psychology doesn’t seem to have paid a lot of attention to, and if the psychologists don’t look into it, who will? (I don’t know much about psychology, though; maybe my last point is wrong—hope so.)
Until poetry everything you wrote could´ve come from me, but then i´ve never seen any beauty in poetry. So using same brain structures for hearing and reading, and enjoying poetry don´t always correlate
Just a quick response to Michael Vassar: I am a very fast reader—just about the fastest I know. And I very much doubt that I could, at my advanced age, learn to read without hearing. Anyway, why would I want to? Among other things, I suspect that those who don’t hear the words they read don’t enjoy poetry as much as I do. What interests me about all this is that it seems to me to show that people’s mental processes differ a lot more than we usually think—a topic that psychology doesn’t seem to have paid a lot of attention to, and if the psychologists don’t look into it, who will? (I don’t know much about psychology, though; maybe my last point is wrong—hope so.)
Until poetry everything you wrote could´ve come from me, but then i´ve never seen any beauty in poetry. So using same brain structures for hearing and reading, and enjoying poetry don´t always correlate