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Why do people automatically sort words when they read them?

The characters will be sorted automatically when reading them, because the characters are so familiar. This happens when reading in the native language, but not when reading in other languages.

The human eye does not read text word by word, but has a scanning range. There are about 3-4 characters at a glance, spanning two or three lines, and jumping forward. If you are proficient in reading, you can read a few more lines, or even "ten lines at a glance".

When I read "Research has shown that the order of Chinese characters does not necessarily affect reading. For example, after reading this sentence, I found that the characters here are all messed up." When it comes to sentences, because the content is common and not complicated, the eyes only scan it roughly. Afterwards, these words were automatically sorted according to my usual reading habits.

Extended information:

This kind of inertia depends on the language environment in which people live. Whether they are modern people, ancient people, or foreigners, as long as they are exposed to their own mother tongue, or relatively This happens with familiar languages.

“We now read from left to right, horizontally, while the ancients read vertically from right to left. If we change it and let modern people read ancient books, they will definitely stumble. "Hvae a ncie day~ Hpoe you konw the ifnomariton." (Have a nice day, I hope you can understand this.) information), although the spelling is also full of holes.