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Automate your Dropbox - 0 views

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    Automate Your Dropbox - Add Magic to Your Folders http://t.co/XWMXaPTf http://twitter.com/tellio/status/199119699970236416
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Storify Editor - 3 views

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Fit2Tri For Tellio - 0 views

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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens - Scientific ... - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 11 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • In the U.S., e-books
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  • Even so
  • "There is physicality in reading,"
  • ...25 more annotations...
  • Navigating textual landscapes
  • Understanding how reading on paper
  • Some of these repurposed brain regions are specialized for object recognition
  • Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety
  • we construct a mental representation of the text
  • Both anecdotally and in published studies,
  • In most cases, paper books
  • In contrast, most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets
  • analogy
  • Instead of hiking the trail yourself, the trees, rocks and moss move past you in flashes with no trace of what came before and no way to see what lies ahead.
  • The implicit feel of where you are
  • At least a few studies suggest
  • Based on observations during the study,
  • Mangen says.
  • Supporting this research
  • Because of these preferences
  • Surveys and consumer reports also suggest
  • An e-reader always weighs the same, regardless of whether you are reading Proust's magnum opus or one of Hemingway's short stories.
  • Paper books
  • Exhaustive reading
  • Although many old
  • tudents scored equally well regardless of the medium, but differed in how they remembered the information.
  • Psychologists distinguish between
  • Other researchers
  • But why, one could ask, are we working so hard to make reading with new technologies like tablets and e-readers so similar to the experience of reading on the very ancient technology that is paper? Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?
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