Deep Reading Brain CLOZE

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A bit more than a century later, in 2010, book editor Peter Dimock said that "[this] kind of reading, then, is a time of internal solitary consciousness in which the reading consciousness is brought up to the level of the knowledge of the author-the farthest point another mind has reached, as it were …" 

The act of going beyond the text to analyze, infer and think new thoughts is the product of years of formation. It takes time, both in milliseconds and years, and effort to learn to read with deep, expanding comprehension and to execute all these processes as an adult expert reader. When it comes to building this reading circuit in a brain that has no preprogrammed setup for it, there is no genetic guarantee that any individual novice reader will ever form the expert reading brain circuitry that most of us form. The reading circuit's very plasticity is also its Achilles' heel. It can be fully fashioned over time and fully implemented when we read, or it can be short-circuited-either early on in its formation period or later, after its formation, in the execution of only part of its potentially available cognitive resources. 

Because we literally and physiologically can read in multiple ways, how we read-and what we absorb from our reading-will be influenced by both the content of our reading and the medium we use.

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