# The Mysteries of Reading and Writing

- 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](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/mysteries-reading-and-writing)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-mysteries-reading-and-writing/d37cd9a8cc2e) (YouTube)
2. [Reading for Pleasure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-mysteries-reading-and-writing/0fddd3845d5d) (YouTube)
3. [Ancient Reading in an Historical Context](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-mysteries-reading-and-writing/ffbf33a7295b) (YouTube)
4. [Modern Reading in Historical Context: From Gutenberg to Naked Women](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-mysteries-reading-and-writing/4d777cb22154) (YouTube)
5. [Reading as a Reader and Reading as a Critic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-mysteries-reading-and-writing/726e7485c5fc) (YouTube)
6. [How do Novels Beguile?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-mysteries-reading-and-writing/1f7f13d4a500) (YouTube)