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- From: wgd@ukc.ac.uk (W.G.Day)
- Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
- Subject: Re: Reading (was Re: Speed-Reading)
- Message-ID: <2233@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 13:28:17 GMT
- References: <2146@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <721315232.6962@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: wgd@ukc.ac.uk (Warren Day)
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- aaron@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >I read fiction slowly to allow my imagination to develop appropriate images.
- >On my straw poll of reading habits (which only consisted of six) people all
- >three who read slowly claimed they had visual memories, the three that read
- >quickly claimed they did not, the visual did not interest them, or that a
- >visual memory without language was impossible.
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- This is interesting, reading language is essentially a left brain exercise and
- when one reads quickly more of the analytic processes become active. As you
- read slowly, especially fiction, you are allowing more time for information
- to pass through the cerabellum and be invisioned by the more visual right
- brain.
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- I'm reading Milan Kundera's Immortality at the moment and thinking back on
- some of the reading I have been doing, I think I have been speeding up when
- reading the more logical and humours bits and then slowing down when coming
- across more of the descriptive imagery.
-
- > Aaron Turner aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
-
- Warren
-