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“As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.” quote by Maryanne Wolf — Download Open image

“As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.”

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There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being…

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The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read…

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Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively…

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The brain is constantly adapting.

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We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it…

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The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow…

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If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

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“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act of reading. Underlying the brain's ability to learn reading lies its protean capacity to make new connections among structures and circuits originally devoted to other more basic brain processes that have enjoyed a longer existence in…

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the…

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The brain is plastic its whole life span.

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I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn…

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We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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