Hack #56: Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun

The length of a sentence isn't what makes it hard to understand; it's how long you have to wait for a phrase to be completed.

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Links

• The support page for Mind Hacks, from which this hack is excerpted.
• Caplan, D. and G. Waters. "Verbal Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension": http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/41/

Errata

In the printed book, the URL for "Verbal Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension" is incorrect; the URL above is correct.

Hack Author

This hack is excerpted from Mind Hacks, by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb, in which it appears as Hack #51 with the full title "Stop Memory Buffer Overrun While Reading."

MattWebb? and TomStafford?

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This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.