Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full ...

The book publishing industry is undergoing a subtle yet strong transformation. Printed books and digital text are still the core, but spoken words are emerging as an integral part of the experience ...

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have created a mind-reading AI system that can take images of a person’s brain activity and translate them into a continuous stream of text. Called a ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI fits into reading practices, and I recently shared a guide exploring this topic in ...

Imagine if you could communicate with anyone without saying a word, just by thinking. That’s the promise of a new technology developed by researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), ...

Psycholinguists from the Center for Language and Brain found that phonological processing skills continue to influence text reading fluency in 15-to-18-year-old adolescents. This finding argues the ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...