Ian Sample
speaker
2,123 appearances
29 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Ian Sample’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's take vocabulary.
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When you're reading a book, you're exposed to far more words than you're going to come across in a sort of, you know, your spontaneous conversation.
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Certainly far more than the words I'm exposed to in my spontaneous conversations.
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And so you're obviously having to learn a lot more words.
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You're having to remember what they mean.
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And readers do know more words than non-readers.
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And so that is going to be exercising your long-term memory.
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But it's not just long-term memory.
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I mean, if you think also...
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There will be effects on short-term memory because as you're reading, you need to hold in your mind, you know, what are the names?
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What are the stories of these people?
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What are the places?
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Who's done what to whom?
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And Fogg said there's, you know, some evidence that readers are a little bit more resilient against particular neurological disorders like conditions like dementia.
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One of the theories behind that is that readers will have this sort of greater what's called cognitive reserve is how Fogg puts it.
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Yeah, and Falk says that this really does seem to help with our logical thinking as to how one thing will go to another.
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And so all of those things are exercising your brain to understand building a logical argument and building a coherent argument.
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Yeah, and Fogg talks about this in his book.
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He explores sort of the abstract thinking.
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That might be abstract worlds with all sorts of different ideas that we're not used to and all the rest of it.
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