As we increasingly read on screens, our reading habits have adapted to skim text rather than really absorb the meaning. A 2006 study found that people read on screens in an F pattern, reading the entire top line but then only scanning through the text along the left side of the page. This sort of nonlinear reading reduces comprehension and actually makes it more difficult to focus the next time you sit down with a longer piece of text. Tufts University neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf worries that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing. Individuals are increasingly finding it difficult to sit down and immerse themselves in a novel. As a result, some researchers and literature-lovers have started a slow reading movement, as a way to counteract their difficulty making it through a book.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:44:16 +0000
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