Researchers from the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) have devised ScentHighlights, software that leverages the way the brain models words to help speed the process of reading or skimming through digitized text.

The software highlights portions of text in a way that makes it cognitively easier for the user to find what she is looking for.

ScentHighlights expands on a set of topics of interest supplied by a user to create a list of keywords tailored to the user’s interests.