{"id":1578,"date":"2010-09-24T11:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:40","slug":"two-ways-to-read-a-banned-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/24\/two-ways-to-read-a-banned-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Two ways to read [a banned book]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Un libro, una sensaci\u00c3\u00b3n, una canci\u00c3\u00b3n. by Xanetia, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xanetia\/3450897421\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3578\/3450897421_1d221135da.jpg\" alt=\"Un libro, una sensaci\u00c3\u00b3n, una canci\u00c3\u00b3n.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmm, how intriguing: we apparently have two ways to read&#8230;including reading a banned book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It turns out that the literate brain contains two distinct pathways for  making sense of words, which are activated in different contexts. One  pathway is known as the <strong>ventral route<\/strong>, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s direct and efficient,  accounting for the vast majority of our reading. The process goes like this: We see a group of letters, convert those  letters into a word, and then directly grasp the word\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s semantic  meaning.<\/p>\n<div>The  second reading pathway \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s known as the <strong>dorsal stream<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is turned on  whenever we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re forced to pay conscious attention to a sentence, perhaps  because of an obscure word, or an awkward subclause, or bad  handwriting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Although  scientists had previously assumed that the dorsal route ceased to be  active once we became literate, Deheane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research demonstrates that  even fluent adults are still forced to occasionally make sense of texts.  We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re suddenly conscious of the words on the page; the automatic act  has lost its automaticity.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Read more at Wired&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/09\/the-future-of-reading-2\/\">Frontal Cortext blog<\/a><\/div>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clusterflock.org\/2010\/09\/two-ways-to-read.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, how intriguing: we apparently have two ways to read&#8230;including reading a banned book: It turns out that the literate brain contains two distinct pathways for making sense of words, which are activated in different contexts. One pathway is known as the ventral route, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s direct and efficient, accounting for the vast majority of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/24\/two-ways-to-read-a-banned-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two ways to read [a banned book]<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157,158,160,156,159],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-brain","tag-cortex","tag-dorsalstream","tag-reading","tag-venalroute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10220,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/10220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}