Die PISA-Studie schockiert: Viele Jugendliche können nicht richtig lesen. Die Frage ist, ob man das überhaupt noch können muss.

A concurrent visuospatial working memory (vsWM) task has been shown to reduce predictive gaze behaviour in several visual world eye-tracking experiments. This reduction could be due to general aspe...

Books have never been trendier, but studies show that as more and more things compete for our frazzled attention spans, we’re reading less and less. This is a problem because reading has a wealth of cognitive benefits that we’re in danger of missing out on.To find out why declining literacy could affect everything from memory to IQ, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample. She also hears from Prof Falk Huettig, an experimental psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and author of The Perks of Being a Bookworm

Madeleine Finlay speaks to Guardian science editor Ian Sample and Prof Falk Huettig, psychologist and author of book on the science of reading’s benefits

KI kann Lesen erleichtern. Doch die Forschung des Psycholinguisten Falk Huettig zeigt: Denken entsteht gerade dort, wo Texte anstrengend werden.

Amazon.com: The Perks of Being a Bookworm: The Science of the Benefits of Reading: 9781009701525: Huettig, Falk: Books

Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: the way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his ...

Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: The way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his new book, Falk Huettig, senior investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, brings together research spanning psychology, linguistics, neuroscience and education to answer that question. The result is a systematic account of how literacy reshapes memory, attention, language processing and reasoning—and even abilities readers might not expect, like face recognition.

A concurrent visuospatial working memory (vsWM) task has been shown to reduce predictive gaze behaviour in several visual world eye-tracking experiments. This reduction could be due to general aspe...

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Cambridge Core - Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics - The Perks of Being a Bookworm

Prediction in language is often about objects in the language users’ visual surroundings. Previous research suggests that linguistic working memory limitations in such task environments constrain l...

Cambridge Core - Cognition - Looking Ahead

Prediction in language is often about objects in the language users’ visual surroundings. Previous research suggests that linguistic working memory limitations in such task environments constrain l...

Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech

We introduce a new method for measuring prediction and language-vision interactions: tracking the trajectories of hand-reaching movements in Virtual R…

Cognitive neuroscience research has attempted to disentangle stimulus-driven processing from conscious perceptual processing for decades. Some prior evidence for neural processing of perceived musical...

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