The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of U.K. adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t ...

Reading is a highly valuable skill that allows humans to acquire new knowledge, pursue an education and complete a wide range of real-world tasks. Many past psychology and neuroscience studies set out ...

The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 say ...

Reading isn’t natural — it’s something your brain learns to do by reshaping circuits originally meant for other tasks like vision, memory, and language. But once mastered, reading becomes so automatic ...