How many of you think my attempt to ground the term bouma or bouma shape in bounded map has merit? The derivation is ... the term bouma is a fitting tribute to a key figure, Herman Bouma. Though Herman Bouma and his associate at the Institute for ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 19 Oct 2005 - 3:51am - 116 comments - 0 attachments

Indices : Terminology : Bouma Bouma: a hypothesized visual-syntactic atom of immersive reading; almost always ... Insup Taylor and/or Paul Saenger , derived from Herman Bouma , a [retired] Dutch scientist. Most cognitive psychologists ...

Wiki - Joe Pemberton - 17 Apr 2008 - 4:54pm - 0 comments

... Taylor & Taylor’s text on reading, as the ‘Bouma’ (rhymes with trauma :). Following Peter’s view, and my ... part of the definition is sufficiently clear at all. Herman Bouma defined legibility (1979) as “the technical quality of the ...

Forum topic - Chris Allen - 28 Oct 2008 - 8:27am - 133 comments - 0 attachments

... isn’t how I use notan. This is closer to how I use bouma. Notan isn’t a process or a phenomenon, it’s a thing. ... of the “Cue Values of Letter Properties” in Herman Bouma’s 1971 “Visual Recognition of Isolated Lowercase ...

Forum topic - j_polo9 - 2 Jul 2006 - 9:19pm - 181 comments - 0 attachments

... theories of letter recognition and the role of the bouma, there is a subthread on spacing, kicked off by five questions including ... / modulars (Hrant) / perceptual distance (Herman Bouma) scales. Next I would want to look at fMRI readouts to see if ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 2:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments

who knew bouma was actually a loveable, young yeti who likes to cook ? The word “bouma” makes The word “bouma” makes me miss Hrant a little. ... Incidentally, I learned from Peter Enneson, who is, like Herman Bouma, of Dutch origin, that ’bouma’ rhymes with ...

Blog entry - paul d hunt - 19 Nov 2007 - 4:52pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... First of all, I didn't really invent the term "bouma": it's adapted from the term "Bouma-shape" used by ... used by them), and is based on the Dutch psychologist Herman Bouma who formalized empirical research into word-shape-based reading. ...

Forum topic - hrant - 25 Sep 2002 - 2:52pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments

... content of a text. If you search on the word ’bouma’ or ’readability’ you will get many, many discussions ... and that Insup and M. Martin Taylor’s use of Herman Bouma’s letter-confusion data to define something they called a ...

Forum topic - arina s. - 29 Apr 2006 - 7:00am - 28 comments - 0 attachments

... know and don't want to know this new religion, Bouma and his friends, sorry. About children books, as a true lover of ... the larger pattern of the cluster. But it is there. Herman Bouma did a lot of it. There is empirical evidence of the ... question adequately. In terms of empirical findings, Herman Bouma has done tests to measure the acuity of the parafovea (both in ...

Forum topic - Miguel Sousa - 12 Jun 2003 - 11:17am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

... the novel was panned because the type had the wrong bouma shape. All in fun... George, thanks so much for George, thanks ... an oblique reference to the close relationship between Herman Melville and Frank Lloyd Wright, which everyone knows about seein’ ...

Forum topic - Steven Wulf - 13 May 2006 - 6:43am - 179 comments - 0 attachments