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What is the validity of this program? Does photoreading actually work? Is there any empirical evidence or publications that shows that this is a successful way of reading?

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1) What is the validity of this program?

I don't know what you mean by that question.

2) Does photoreading actually work?

We back the claim with a 30-day money-back satisfaction guarantee. This guarantee can be extended up to six months, for whatever reason. Each person who attends a PhotoReading seminar or who buys the PhotoReading Personal Learning Course can also call or email for free coaching. Coaching is also available on this forum.

3) Is there any empirical evidence or publications that shows that this is a successful way of reading?

See another post in this forum about studies. In the next post I will attempt to copy an article on the nonconscious acquisition of knowledge, which is what PhotoReading is.


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Research Findings on
Nonconscious Acquisition of Information

by Paul R. Scheele, MA, editor
[Paul is also the developer and author of PhotoReading]

Summary

A considerable amount of evidence indicates that nonconscious information-acquisition processes are much faster and structurally more sophisticated than consciously controlled thinking. Also referred to as the characteristics of "preconscious processing," these processes allow for the development of procedural knowledge that is "unknown" to conscious awareness. Research shows that this knowledge can enter the memory system through channels that are independent from consciousness and involve a more advanced and structurally more complex organization than could be handled by consciously controlled thinking.

The mechanisms of nonconscious acquisition of information, also referred to as the "preconscious processor," can provide efficient processing of multidimensional and interactive relations between variables. It also provides a major channel for the development of procedural knowledge that is indispensable for many important aspects of cognitive functioning.

The preconscious processor seems to be directly involved in high level cognitive operations such as encoding, the interpretation of stimuli, drawing inferences, and the triggering of emotional reactions—all of which are essential to the act of reading.

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A considerable amount of evidence indicates that the human cognitive system is capable of nonconsciously detecting and processing information about covariations between features or events in the outside world.

Results from a variety of tests provide evidence that subjects in the experiments have no access to the newly acquired procedural knowledge and no idea that they have learned anything from the stimulus material, even though the newly acquired knowledge consistently guides their behavior.

The mechanism of preconscious processing (the preconscious processor), is equipped to efficiently process complex information and appears to be incomparably more able to process complex knowledge faster and "smarter" overall than our ability to think and identify meanings of stimuli consciously.

Most of the "real work," both in the acquisition of cognitive procedures and skills and in the execution of cognitive operations, is being done at the level to which our consciousness has no access. The sophistication and speed of this inner processing far exceed what can even be approached by our consciously controlled thinking.

The "responsibility" of this inaccessible level of our mental functioning is more than routine operations such as retrieving information from memory and adjusting the level of arousal. It is directly involved in the development of interpretive categories, drawing inferences, determining emotional reactions, and other high-level cognitive operations.


Editor's note: The above is paraphrased from an original work titled, "Nonconscious Acquisition of Information" by Pawel Lewicki, Thomas Hill, Maria Czyzewska, University of Tulsa, American Psychologist, June 1992, Vol. 47, No. 6, 796-801. Funding for the original work was provided by National Science Foundation Grant BNS-8920726 and National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH-42715-05. Liberties were taken to connect the concepts presented in the article to other works by Norman F. Dixon (Preconscious Processing, 1981) and by Charles A. Perfetti (Reading Ability, 1985). This has been done to show supportive evidence for the foundational principles of the PhotoReading whole mind system.



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