Screen Time Is Changing Our Brain Circuitry

To help young readers, we need a better understanding of what that might mean

Maryanne Wolf

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Let’s begin with a deceptively simple fact that has inspired my work on the reading brain over the past decade and move from there:

Human beings were never born to read.

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Maryanne Wolf

John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University