Attention. That is the ‘secret’ to speed reading. If you consider attention as focusing both on perception and comprehension. Attention provides the real key to speed reading. More and more experiments in neuropsychology and artificial intelligence are showing that thinking is built on perceptive foundations. Our senses do not mislead us as philosophers used to say, actually they shape our understanding. Training the visual system in conjunction with analysis, criticism and synthesis is the key to reading improvement.