Show SHOWS SPEED OF THOUGHT A method of studying the me movements ve of the eye in reading aloud and correlating them with the actual pronunciation of the words lias has been announced in science magazine by prof joseph tiffin of iowa university photographic records of the eye and the sound track produced by the voice show that tile the voice lags about a second behind tile the eye this may be taken as a measure of the speed of thought the time required for the mind to recognize the word and transmit the necessary orders to the speech apparatus the record also shows that the eye does not travel smoothly along a line of type but proceeds by a series of jerks |