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We’re reading less. And it’s making us stupid

We’re reading less. And it’s making us stupid

Science Weekly vor 2 Monaten

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

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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. Help support our
independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod