In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two ...

Puzzles, brain-training games and hobbies have long been said to stave off cognitive decline. But while some research has ...

New research has revealed that about 56% of individuals between ages 8 and 18 don’t love reading in their free time. This study by the National Literacy Trust also revealed that reading enjoyment has ...

When holidays or pandemics shut down schools, gender differences in children's reading habits widen; boys stop reading, while girls continue, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen ...

When a person reads a sentence, two distinct networks in the brain are activated, working together to integrate the meanings of the individual words to obtain more complex, higher-order meaning, ...

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In another instance of concern about reading skills in the German market, the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels—Germany’s publishers and booksellers association—is reporting a “significant” fall ...

Puzzles, brain-training games and hobbies have long been said to stave off cognitive decline. But while some research has ...