Unlike scrolling, deep reading fiction requires your brain to concentrate on a single narrative for an extended period, which ...

A new study reveals how literacy fundamentally rewires the human mind, sharpening memory, focus, and face recognition.

In her book The Shaking Woman, Siri Hustvedt delights in reading’s power to recast her “internal narrator”: The closest we can get to . . . entrance into another person’s psyche is through reading.

The novel, “The Tale of Genji,” by a Japanese woman, Murasaki Shikibu, is believed to be the first novel. This was 1,000 years ago, and since then, countless fiction and non-fiction in unimaginable ...

Experts say resilience may be as ordinary as the journal entries people scribble, the emails they exchange, the task lists ...

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE provides evidence that reading comic books on physical paper helps the brain absorb and connect story details more easily than reading on a digital tablet ...

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 ...

Recently, my colleagues and I published a study on decoding language from brain recordings made using functional MRI. Brain decoders are being developed to help restore communication to people who ...

Do you remember what it was like before you learnt to read? It's hard to think back that far! Scientific research has shown that learning to read changes the way our brains work. Not only that, but ...