Some individuals may not be able to perceive the order if they come too fast.

• (continued from the previous slide...) like young children with immature neural networks; individuals with brain dysfunction or much older folk like me (with thinning hair and brain cells) may become confused.

  
    ----------------------- C--A--T --------------------------
                            (time)

  
  
  

  Now we don't know whether the order was CAT or TAC or ACT. In speech, of course, it makes a big difference.

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