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Practice doesn't make perfect

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It may seem counterintuitive, but we are not very efficient at recognizing even the most common words. This finding suggests strict limits on how flexible we are in learning to recognize new patterns.

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Figure 1: Why are we so inefficient at recognizing words?

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