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- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow and confusion that comes when your child appears to learn in a different way from other children.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts are learned and practised long and well.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is constantly adapting.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020