Researchers say findings differ from previous theories that words are understood one by one
Whether it is news headlines or WhatsApp messages, modern humans are inundated with short pieces of text. Now researchers say they have unpicked how we get their gist in a single glance.
However, the research offers fresh insights, revealing we can detect certain sentence structures in as little as 125 milliseconds – a timeframe similar to the blink of an eye. The team say the findings suggest parallels with the way in which we perceive visual scenes, with Pylkkanen noting the results could have practical uses for the designers of digital media, as well as advertisers and designers of road signs., Pylkkanen and colleagues report how they used a non-invasive scanning device to measure the brain activity of 36 participants.
What’s more, participants’ brain activity rapidly increased in response to a starting sentence with a subject, verb and object, with activity detected in the left-middle temporal cortex within 130ms – about 50ms quicker than for a list of nouns.
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