{"id":777,"date":"2010-11-11T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=777"},"modified":"2010-11-11T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T01:04:09","slug":"finger_memory_and_typing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/finger_memory_and_typing","title":{"rendered":"Finger Memory and Typing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"250\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2010\/hand_nervous_system.jpg\" alt=\"hand nerves\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clinical psychologists have identified two separate checks that the brain uses against errors when typing. Typists check their work visually by looking at the output of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/office-machines-supplies\/c-2420\">typing<\/a>. But it seems fingers also &ldquo;recognise&rdquo; when a typo has been made.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Logan and Matthew Crump of Vanderbilt University, Nashville carried out tests on proficient typists who could type 40 words or more a minute. As the typists typed, a program both introduced common errors occasionally when none had been made and surreptitiously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/pens-pencils\/correction-aids\/c-579\"> corrected<\/a> some errors where they had. The participants tended to take the blame for errors that the program had introduced while taking credit for their errors which had been corrected by the computer.<\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, the researchers found that when a real error was made by a typist, his or her fingers slowed down for the next keystroke, whether or not the program had corrected the error. While the typist may not have been conscious of the error, the brain&rsquo;s motor signal changed nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the &ldquo;higher&rdquo; system assigning credit and blame was less reliable than the &ldquo;lower&rdquo; system doing the actual work.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The body is doing one thing and the mind is doing another,&rdquo; said Logan. &ldquo;What we found was that the fingers knew the truth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><i>Via<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/10\/fingers-know-typos\" target=\"_blank\">Wired Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/office-machines-supplies\/c-2420\">Office machines<\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/pens-pencils\/correction-aids\/c-579\">Tipp-Ex<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Clinical psychologists have identified two separate checks that the brain uses against errors when typing. 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Gordon Logan and Matthew Crump of Vanderbilt University, Nashville carried out tests on proficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Office_Machines_and_Supplies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finger Memory and Typing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/finger_memory_and_typing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finger Memory and Typing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Clinical psychologists have identified two separate checks that the brain uses against errors when typing. 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