Mindless Reading Seen As Fundamental

July 3rd, 2006 in Medicine & Health /

(AP) -- Better pay attention, reader. This whole story may be a blur. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the ill effects of mindless reading - a phenomenon in which people take in sentence after sentence without really paying attention.

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