“Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?”
David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University, Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Sandra Aamodt, a former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, and Alan Liu, the chairman and professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara all weigh in for the New York Times‘ “Room for Debate: Does the Brain Like E-Books?”
(via HTMLGIANT)
