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Paper

Task-determined strategies of visual process, by Gad Geiger, Jerome Y. Lettvin, and Olga Zegarra-Moran.

Other papers of interest (but reading these is not part of the assignment)

A more recent treatment

Developmental Dyslexia: a Different Perceptual Strategy and How to Learn a New Strategy for Reading, by Gad Geiger and Jerome Y. Lettvin.

An amazing auditory result

Wide and Diffuse Perceptual Modes Characterizes Dyslexics in Vision and Audition, by Gad Geiger et al.

WRT: 1 hour, but Section 3, readable in minutes, is the interesting part

Assignment

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following.

The subject of dyslexia turns up in a conversation you are having with friend who happens to be dyslexic. “Well,” says the friend, “I recently heard about an article appearing in that eminent scientific journal, The Boston Globe, that says MRI studies on dyslexics demonstrate that my brain is, regretably, defective, and that accounts for my inability to read.”

• Having read the paper, write a letter to the scientists mentioned, commenting on the conclusions reached, based on what you have learned in Geiger's paper.
• Because you presume that the authors have not read the Geiger paper, include a VSN-C summary.
• Also, plainly state the goal are you trying to achieve in your letter.
• Circle and label the VSN-C and the goal.
• Be sure to include interesting details.