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Terry Elliott

Actually, online skimming probably hasn't affected serious reading after all - 0 views

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  • A popular Washington Post article by my colleague Michael S. Rosenwald
  • The truth is, probably, that the brain is simply not adaptable enough for such a radical change. Yes, the brain changes as a consequence of experience, but there are likely limits to this change, a point made by both Steve Pinker and Roger Schank when commenting on this issue.
  • Pinker and Schank were among a group of people who responded in 2010 to Edge.org’s question: How is the Internet changing the way you think?
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  • Rosenwald’s story said that cognitive neuroscientists are worried that humans “seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online” which is “competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia.”
  • The good news is that our brains are not being deep-fried by the Web; we can still read deeply and think carefully. The bad news is that we don’t want to.
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