I did my final year dissertation on cognitive style, which is a random psychology thing which basically looks into whether people think in words or pictures, and how they organise information in their brain as it were.

I found that there was interesting correlations between people's reading speed and how they handled information as well as whether they thought in words or pictures. I am hoping to do more research into this area when I have money/experience and of course funding.

I don't think in pictures, I don't usually find pictures helpful and i have to decode diagrams to make sense of them. I am very much a verbal person and think in words. I don't really subvocalise ever, in fact I loathe reading aloud as a concept not least cos it fouls up my speech something chronic (I am partially deaf and start sounding deaf when I read aloud).

I know many people who can read non-fiction quickly, or on a screen quickly, but struggle more with fiction or 'real books'. Like someone said above a correlation of this data would be cool, especially if you could get more data about participants lifestyles, experiences and occupations.

Argh, must not talk about research, have to do jobhunting not research.

Natalya