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In today's episode, Dr. Maryanne Wolf of Tufts University's Center for Reading and Language Research talks with Adam about the human brain's ability to read. Although reading is an essential part of our daily lives, it is a relatively new ability that our species developed roughly five thousand years ago. Researchers like Dr. Wolf emphasize that the act of reading is vastly complex, and requires that we engage many different parts of the brain because no single area within the brain is responsible for reading. With the advent of new text display technologies that may distract us from the type of attentional focus required by reading, there are many open-ended questions about how deep-reading processes may be transformed by these technologies. Join Adam as he learns how long it took the human brain to learn how to read strings of letters, as well as the challenges the brain will face in the decades to come. [05:42]
