New book explores the cognitive science of how reading reshapes the mind
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A new book by Falk Huettig, Senior Investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, synthesizes research across psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education to explore how reading reshapes cognitive abilities including memory, attention, language processing, reasoning, and even face recognition. The article notes that reading habits have changed dramatically in the last decade due to smartphones, online learning, and generative AI.
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· 3 pulledSmartphones, online learning, generative AI: the way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century.
So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind?
The result is a systematic account of how literacy reshapes memory, attention, language processing, and reasoning - and even abilities readers might not expect, like face recognition.
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