Rose Kerr
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first heard Apr 2026
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Her research aims to understand how people read and how different writing systems impact that process.
Stuff like our attention and memory systems.
So regardless of the language we're reading, we broadly rely on those same cognitive processes.
But there are some differences.
Lily and her team observed how this impacts reading through an eye-tracking study where participants were asked to read text in their first language.
They found that overall comprehension of the text was more or less the same.
However...
on the language you're reading, your brain might be doing slightly different work to understand the text.
But overall, because reading is an invented skill, it's going to use those same cognitive processes.
Now we know how reading works, we can get into its benefits.
With all these cognitive processes going on, it's no big surprise that reading is good for the brain.
For example, it can increase your vocabulary.
It can also improve our memory.
It's also thought that reading can be an escape or a way to relax.
There's also a bunch of good stuff we can get from reading fiction specifically.
This is Raymond Ma, a professor of psychology from York University in Toronto.
Plus, reading relates to social connection.
And Raymond says reading books might even help us live longer.
With all these benefits of reading, it makes you wonder, what about if you struggle with reading?
How does that impact your life?
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