🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: While it may not be obvious to most, text styles likely impact important cognitive processes and might make or break information retention.
found that this benefit also applies to students with dyslexia. This can appear counterintuitive, but in reality, the increased demand for mental processing may promote better attention toward the current task and improve the reader’s ability to retain information.
“Difficulty can function as an alarm signal, giving the reader a sense that the task is challenging and will require mental effort. This leads the reader to really focus on the material — as opposed to skimming through it — and that additional deep processing helps us learn the material better,” says Daniel Oppenheimer, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the 2010 study authors.
Sans Forgetica was released in 2018 to help students recall short answers, phrases or prompts. “We read words by recognizing its outline rather than letter-by-letter, so this needs to be respected in longer text settings. Our brain simply compares that shape with our memory of what that word should look like,” says Banham.
If a font is difficult to read because an individual is unfamiliar with it, then sufficient practice would make it easier to read and it would no longer have such an effect, says Oppenheimer. However, in recent years, some researchers have highlighted
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