{"id":5477,"date":"2014-04-10T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2014-04-14T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:52:00","slug":"cliffs-notes-autogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/10\/cliffs-notes-autogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliffs Notes AutoGen"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0Michael S. Rosenwald<\/a><\/p>\n

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Claire Handscombe has a commitment problem online. Like a lot of Web surfers, she clicks on links posted on social networks, reads a few sentences, looks for exciting words, and then grows restless, scampering off to the next page she probably won\u2019t commit to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI give it a few seconds \u2014 not even minutes \u2014 and then I\u2019m moving again,\u201d says Handscombe, a 35-year-old graduate student in creative writing at American University.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like your eyes are passing over the words but you\u2019re not taking in what they say,\u201d she confessed. \u201cWhen I realize what\u2019s happening, I have to go back and read again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n

To cognitive neuroscientists, Handscombe\u2019s experience is the subject of great fascination and growing alarm. Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online. This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing,\u201d said Maryanne Wolf, a Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and the author of \u201cProust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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