The Science of eyeQ

The Eye-Brain connection

Reading is activity that begins with our eyes and ends deep within our brain. Our eyes are the cameras that capture the image that we look at, and begin the process of sending the image to the brain to search for understanding. The brain is both the CPU...or Central Processing Unit, and the Hard Drive...or short and long-term database.

The process starts when your brain outputs the information from that database, the database that knows and understands the English language. As your eyes see the words on the page of the book, the message those words convey is processed with the help of the database. Understanding occurs. New data (or knowledge) is input into your brain's reserve, or your memory.

Reading, then, consists of outputting, processing, and inputting.