High-Speed English Oral Reading for Cognitive Enhancement 2
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This paper presents a novel cognitive training method based on daily high-speed oral reading of English news articles. The method involves reading aloud at double speed or faster for 30 minutes per day. Preliminary self-observations suggest significant improvements in thinking speed, memory, and overall cognitive performance. This low-cost, easily implementable approach may have broad applications in education, language learning, and cognitive health.This method is also an incredibly effective way to learn English.This work is also archived on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17149151Related WorkPrevious research has explored several approaches to enhancing cognitive and linguistic performance through reading-based interventions. One well-established line of work is repeated reading fluency training, which has been shown to improve reading speed and comprehension primarily among children and second-language learners [Samuels, 1979]. Another relevant strand involves time-compressed speech, where listeners are exposed to accelerated audio recordings; studies indicate that comprehension can be maintained up to certain compression thresholds, and that exposure can foster auditory adaptation and faster information processing [Foulke & Sticht, 1969; Dupoux & Green, 1997]. These methods, however, typically focus either on passive listening or text repetition, and their primary outcomes concern reading fluency or auditory comprehension.By contrast, the present method emphasizes high-speed oral reading, which requires active articulation at near-limit pacing. This approach simultaneously engages phonological processing, working memory, and motor planning, potentially leading to broader cross-domain cognitive benefits beyond reading fluency alone. To our knowledge, no prior work has directly investigated high-speed oral reading as a systematic training paradigm, making this contribution a novel extension of the existing literature.
  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    No, please don’t share this. This is not science, this is trash masquerading as science. This is merely the author’s subjective experience with a bunch of kooky ideas and analogies that just make zero sense. There was no real methodology. No control groups. No actual measurements.

    Here is a excerpt of this shitty paper demonstrating this:

    “The subject engaged in several months of training. By analogy, if the human brain is considered as a computer, at the initial stage it functions like a CPU with a 2KB cache.After a certain period of training, the CPU is strengthened and the cache is expanded to 3KB ; with further practice, both are enhanced, with the cache reaching 4KB, and eventually to 5KB as the duration of learning increases. With daily practice, this capacity grows gradually, though the rate of improvement and the resulting outcomes vary across individuals (in this case, the subject’s IQ was above 140).”

    This weird ass naked assertion with no supporting evidence is so completely wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin. The brain is not a computer. CPU cache in such tiny amounts on a modern processor is laughably out of touch and makes it obvious the author is talking out of his ass. The self-brag on his IQ in parentheses is just icing on the cake of this narcissistic rambling.