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Midday with Dan Rodricks

Reading in the Internet Age

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If you find yourself skimming online content or feeling restless as you try to read something, you're not alone. Human brain circuitry is changing in the face of modern-day technology; experts worry that the changes can prevent in-depth processing. Our guests: cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf, director of the Tufts University Center for Reading and Language Research and the author of, "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain," and reading specialist Barbara Marinak, associate professor of education at Mount St. Mary's University.