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Last updated: 2006-07-03

Mindless reading seen as fundamental
2006-07-03

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Neuroscience
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University of Pittsburgh
University of Michigan
Better pay attention, reader. This whole story may be a blur. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the ill effects of mindless reading -- a phenomenon in which people take in sentence after sentence without really paying attention. ... ...
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