Two experts at the University of Illinois, Allen H. Renear and Carole L. Palmer, both professors of library and information science, announce that the long-awaited innovation in reading techniques, which has been promised since the 1980s, is finally about to take place. It mostly addresses people skimming through sci... |
19 August 2009
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A new scientific study comes to show that the age at which children learn to read can be considered an early indicator of their reading habits later on in life. That is to say, the science team behind the research, based at the University of Leicester, believes that kids form their word- and symbol-recognition patter... |
7 May 2009
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According to new statistics released last week by the US Education Department, more than 1 in 7 American adults lack the most basic skills in understanding written language and basic mathematic calculus. That is to say, well over 14 percent of already-employed individuals in the US cannot even read the newspaper, or ... |
12 January 2009
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A recent test on brain activity during reading and Internet surfing has indicated that the latter is superior to the old reading hobby, in that it stimulates more highly the areas related to memory, decision making and visual images, situated in the frontal, temporal and the cingulate regions of the brain. Still, whe... |
27 October 2008
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Developed by Custom Solutions of Maryland, Speed Reading allows users to measure their reading speed, and to use different methods to increase it, as well as improve comprehension. The latest iteration of the app, released earlier this year, enhances Leopard support. Speed Reading III offers ten built-in practice tex... |
5 September 2008
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A human has what is named bi-symmetry: he/she possesses two hands, two legs, two eyes, two cerebral hemispheres which look equal. But this is just an illusion. Firstly, we have a leading hand, in most people the right one and, secondly, a leading eye, the right one in two thirds of the people, as researchers have fou... |
26 March 2007
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