Speed-Reading Apps Impair Reading Comprehension
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 10:40
in Biology & Nature
Are you on the go a lot? Is your time so limited even moving your eyeballs is putting you behind? If so, there is an app for that. If not, app developers are looking to create a market for that kind of personalized optimization, so they have devised speed-reading software that eliminates the time we supposedly waste by moving our eyes as we read. Are eyes just passive conduits getting in the way of the modern world with their ancient biological mechanism? A paper in Psychological Science argues that eye movements we make during reading actually play a critical role in our ability to understand what we've just read. read more