Whether reading a book or listening to a recording, the goal is the same: understanding. But these activities aren’t exactly alike.

Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written ...

Neurons' ability to change their behavior in response to new stimuli is what makes learning possible. And even neurons' ...

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past ...

As California wrestles with a statewide literacy crisis, a bill poised to hit Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk could fundamentally change the way students learn to read in California. The bill, AB 1454, would ...

Listening to podcasts or audiobooks uses different parts of the brain to those that are engaged when you read something. In ...