Tag: Reading
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Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?
In the modern day, we live in a world without a cosmic moral order, a framework of meaning to which everyone automatically subscribes. We had one for a while. But round about the year 1700, give or take a century, that framework started cracking, fragmenting, losing its authority, and the burden of finding meaning shifted…
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Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images
because the words prompted no mental images, it was almost as if reading bypassed the visual world altogether and tunnelled directly into their minds. Aphantasics might skip over descriptive passages in books — since description aroused no images in their minds, they found it dull — or, because of such passages, avoid fiction altogether. When…
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Comment la lecture « enclenche une véritable symphonie » dans le cerveau
une petite région particulière, spécialisée dans la reconnaissance visuelle des lettres et identique quelle que soit la langue. Située dans le sillon occipito-temporal, à l’arrière de l’hémisphère gauche, elle a été baptisée « aire de la forme visuelle des mots », ou « boîte aux lettres du cerveau », par Stanislas Dehaene. Si elle est endommagée, les personnes ne…
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How the pandemic has changed the world – Marginal REVOLUTION
In a recent interview, I was struck by the comment that so many of the shops that we associate with the best of France—the poissonneries and the fromageries—closed during the pandemic, to be replaced by take-out pizza shops and the like. College professors almost uniformly describe big changes in student behavior: lecture attendance and willingness…