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Most of us have an opinion about whether we prefer reading on screen or paper :  but what difference does it make. There are multiple perspectives to consider – developmental, educational, literary and technological – if we are to decide which medium is preferable. How exactly does the technology we use to read change the way we read ?  How do our brains respond differently to onscreen text than to words on paper ?  Since at least the 1980s researchers in many different fields—including psychology, computer engineering, and library and information science—have investigated such questions in more than one hundred published studies. most studies concluded that people read slower, less accurately and less comprehensively on screens than on paper. 
Some of these repurposed brain regions are specialized for object recognition—they are networks of neurons that help us instantly distinguish an apple from an orange, for example, yet classify both as fruit. Some of the earliest forms of writing, such as Sumerian cuneiform, began as characters shaped like the objects they represented — a person's head, an ear of barley, a fish.  Some researchers see traces of these origins in modern alphabets : C as crescent moon, S as snake. The brain literally goes through the motions of writing when reading, even if the hands are empty. 

                                                           


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