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5:00am October 12, 2014

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This is why Rome won so many battles. Enemy spies would wait for them to read battle plans to themselves while mouthing the words; trouble was, they had learned not to!

Spoken language is still processed through the auditory sense and centers. Your brain cannot tell the difference between things you actually hear and things that you have only imagined hearing. Silent reading is imagining the sound of words being spoken. The big question, is what kind of voice do you hear reading the words? (I hear my own voice as it sounded when I was 5.)

^Which is also why if you are close to someone, you often imagine their voices as you read their text messages.

I think one of the things about speed-reading is teaching people to break the habit of reading words aloud in their heads, because that naturally puts a cap on your speed

I don’t really hear words in my head when I read because I’m going too fast for that

Silent reading is not, for me, imagining the sound of the words being spoken. Perhaps classic hyperlexics, who grow up with severe language processing problems yet good decoding skills, are different? But no, just no, when I read silently, there is no voice in my head unless I want there to be, and even then it’s tinny and faint.

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