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Task-determined strategies of visual process, by Gad Geiger, Jerome Y. Lettvin, and Olga Zegarra-Moran.
Technology and Courage, by Ivan Sutherland
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
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The pièce de résistance is the Geiger paper. You can skim the Sutherland paper; we will discuss it, but there is no written assignment.
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.