"There's a kind of frontal lobe dance, if you will, that's going on between what we know and what we're encountering," he says. "We have the ability through these deep reading processes to add our own background knowledge,. Our inference, our deductions, our inductions to make a critical analysis of what is written"
Maryanne Wolf is a professor at UCLA and the renowned author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" and "Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World." She says deep reading makes you a better thinker, communicator, and citizen. But what happens if you lose the ability to read slowly, patiently, and critically? Is there anything you can do to get it back?
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