Mr Deng's IT News Collection: A collective of scientists and writers, known as the Slow Reading Movement, fears this addiction to speed-reading is affecting our brains, and is encouraging people to rediscover the novel. The group includes Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at Tufts University and author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. Professor Wolf fears we might “lose the ‘deep-reading’ brain in a digital culture”. In a paper for the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, she argues that “it takes time ... to (learn to) read with deep, expanding comprehension, and to execute all these processes as an adult expert reader”. There is “no genetic guarantee that any individual novice reader will ever form the expert reading brain circuitry,” she warns

11 April, 2014

A collective of scientists and writers, known as the Slow Reading Movement, fears this addiction to speed-reading is affecting our brains, and is encouraging people to rediscover the novel. The group includes Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at Tufts University and author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. Professor Wolf fears we might “lose the ‘deep-reading’ brain in a digital culture”. In a paper for the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, she argues that “it takes time ... to (learn to) read with deep, expanding comprehension, and to execute all these processes as an adult expert reader”. There is “no genetic guarantee that any individual novice reader will ever form the expert reading brain circuitry,” she warns

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