In a new study, investigators from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, managed to determine the specific brain abnormality that underlies the development of dyslexia. The team learned that auditory signal processing pathways display a glitch that is the most likely cause of the condition. The findings are... |
23 December 2011
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A paper published in the latest online issue of the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE shows that exposure to background noises makes it very difficult for people suffering from dyslexia to read.
At least part of the condition is caused by the fact that individuals who have it are always exposed to at least some outside... |
28 November 2011
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Investigators at the Northwestern University provide the first biological basis for a long-suspected connection between a person's ability to read and their musical aptitudes and auditory working memory efficiency. This is the first time such an intricate connection is proven. The auditory working memory repres... |
17 October 2011
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The conclusions of a new scientific study appear to indicate a higher incidence of depression and associated symptoms in teenagers who listen to music for longer than they spend reading a book. This is one of the most interesting researches on the issue ever conducted, analysts say, because it quantifies the effect t... |
5 April 2011
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Amazon.com, the biggest online retailer in the US, has announced that Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch is now available in more than 60 additional countries from the iTunes App Store. Featuring Amazon's Whispersync technology, the Kindle iPhone app is able to save and sync a customer's bookmarks across thei... |
14 December 2009
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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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