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The Mysteries of Reading and Writing

Professor Belinda Jack · Gresham College

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About

Neuroscience is beginning to explore what happens when we read by monitoring the areas of the brain that are stimulated while we read. Do these findings matter to the Humanities? Is there neurological evidence that the brain responds differently to ‘good’ and ‘bad’ writing? How we read clichés will be examined, as well as what the experience of re-reading tells us about reading first time round?

Lectures

  1. What is Reading? 2013-10-01 · YouTube
  2. Reading for Pleasure 2013-11-26 · YouTube
  3. Ancient Reading in an Historical Context 2014-01-28 · YouTube
  4. Modern Reading in Historical Context: From Gutenberg to Naked Women 2014-02-25 · YouTube
  5. Reading as a Reader and Reading as a Critic 2014-04-08 · YouTube
  6. How do Novels Beguile? 2014-05-13 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Belinda Jack
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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