The Science Behind Writing, Is It Meta?

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So much of our communication happens in written form. Is reading and writing a big way of communicating these days, or are people doing more of what we're doing now? It's like the silent media, the hidden medium, you know, something that's there hidden in plain sight. And then if you look at email, now email isn't going anywhere anytime soon. In 2021, we sent and received 319 billion emails every day.

Rob Ashton is a writer who focuses on the science of how the things we read and write influence what we think and do. Rob founded the global learning company Emphasis, and over the last six years, he’s focused on researching the science of reading and writing, ranging from cognitive and social neuroscience to behavioral and neuroeconomics. In this conversation, we discuss how science can make us more effective readers and writers.

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