Davis uses the following three sentences to illustrate how simply leaving the first and last letters of a word in place doesn't necessarily mean a sentence will be easily readable. 1.

This Device Reads Your Brain’s Thoughts and Spells Them Out MINDFUL Edward Chang and his colleagues at UCSF think they’ve found a way to give a voice to people with speech paralysis.

In these studies, participants were asked to read letters, pseudo-words (i.e., words that don't mean anything), words, sentences and entire texts. Schematic summary of findings.