Whether it’s novels, magazines or comics, reading offers plenty of benefits for your brain.

Learning to read reshapes how the brain processes language. New research from Baycrest and the University of São Paulo shows that learning to read fundamentally changes how the brain responds to ...

“Fewer than half of all adults reported having read a book of any kind in 2022,” she reports. Another study “found that the proportion of Americans who read for pleasure on any given day fell from 28 ...

We see not just with our eyes, but with our brains. A mosaic of specialized areas in a brain region known as the visual cortex interprets different sights, helping us identify everything from solid ...

Schools delegitimize explicit spelling instruction while research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience report that spelling knowledge literally drives the reading brain circuitry, not only for ...

“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

At this year’s Pre-read Assembly, the scholar, author and literacy advocate Maryanne Wolf described the sophisticated neural circuitry that we call on — and continue to strengthen — when we read ...