When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

On an evening walk in 2023, I’d just started listening to Emily Hanford’s groundbreaking podcast “Sold a Story,” when an interview with a father and daughter hit me like a ton of library books. The ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Reading is often seen as a form of relaxation, but research shows that this habit can have an impact on both brain health and ...

The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of daily use, with 57% of ...

A new study has discovered a direct link between the number of milliseconds it takes a child’s brain to process the form of a printed word and how well that child understands what they are reading.

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...