Well I had created a combination of memory and speed reading technique(The combination was made by me but the Speed Reading technique was created by Raymon Capayo) and by using a version of a that technique which I have not posted in this forum I was able shift between reading page number A and Page Number B with out having completed page number A but I was able to do this only in pages in which sentences are spread out(Ex- The pages of Science Notes )and not in pages in which sentences are close together(Ex- Pages of a Science textbook) can anybody tell me which method Kim Peek used for Speed Reading so that I can improve this method and then share it in the Art of Memory Forum,
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I know he was Autistic so I think he just had a natural ability to read quickly and retain what he learned. I don’t think he used any memory techniques or speed reading. I think it was Kim, but couldn’t he read a page with each eye? If so, I don’t think we can really train that!
I think he actually had FG syndrome, not autism. The book Neurotribes by Steve Silberman has some interesting information on the sources for the Rain Man movie.
Since Kim Peek didn’t have a corpus callosum or a hippocampal commissure, his brain would have had to develop the ability to process language in both hemispheres. This, of course, gave him a major advantage in terms of speed-reading and information retention,- From Psychology Today
And also One reason Kim was able to provide so much detail and depth from his voluminous memory was that he could speed - read anything put in front of him,From appliedbehavioranalysisedu.
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And I do not read two pages simultaneously(I tried but I could not do that) I read from Page A to Page B and from Page B to Page B until I have either completed a page and I am going to post the method by which I am able to do this for pages containing sentences that are spread out(Ex- As in Science Notes) and also please note that while the latest version of my Speed reading and Memory System combination only works for technical subjects(For example- Science) but I will soon try to add support for other subjects in a later version of this system,
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I did not know that! hmm seems like there are similar qualities between the two.
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I think he was originally diagnosed with autism but then later it was thought to be FG syndrome.
And a part of my upcoming version of the combination of Speed Reading and Memory Techniques which allows me to switch between two pages is
- Read Text from Page A
- Create a mental marker for what you have read and place it in an object and also add space near it if you have not read the whole paragraph or sentence .
And also if you are skipping text which I think is called Skimming which might happpen when switching between two pages and you have read too much of one page even then you can repeat this process.
But do not forget to organise those locations in Page A if you switch to Page B and then When switching to page A you skip 1 or more paragraphs or sentences(For example- If I a reading Page A and then Switched to Page B and then when returning to Page A I skip 2 paragraphs in it then I arrange the images of page A in order).
And also I do not think that this technique will work for text that is not separated by a few lines or maybe one line in both the pages which you are reading(As when reading a book I think that anyone can try to read only one or two pages at a time as a person will have to turn those two pages to see more pages,However I do not know how well this system or sub-system(I think) will work for Gift cards which I think have more than four papers or pages whether the text in them is separated or not.
And the reason I had created this forum topic was to know how Kim Peek could read two pages of a book at once as I can switch between two pages when reading notes whose paragraphs are separated from each other(As in Science Notes) but I can not do the same thing for my Science textbook and due to this reason I think that I can not do this with other textbooks also which contain dense text.
Seems to me there are too many “musts” and assumptions in that Psychology Today article, and very little evidence. (Lack of a corpus callosum certainly doesn’t mean that one is a ‘natural split-brain patient’).
They also claim that he ‘must’ have developed language centers in both R & L hemispheres since he had no corpus callosum, and that he also ‘must’ have developed sub-cortical connections since he lacked a corpus callosum. I don’t think the conclusions are logically necessary from the ‘musts’ that they postulate.