Reading Faster: The Science Behind What Works... and What Doesn't (Ep. 93)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Let's dig deep into the science of reading. On this episode, I'm talking with Liz Schotter - a postgraduate student in psychology, and one of the most active researchers in the area of eye-tracking and speed reading today. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: So Much to Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help? Liz's website Keith Rayner The science behind reading speed 3 common speed reading techniques debunked How to ACTUALLY read faster Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hey what's up everybody and welcome to the College Info Geek
0:41.0	Podcast.
0:42.0	My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.
0:46.0	And in today's episode we are talking more about reading, specifically speed reading but also the process of reading itself,
0:52.6	all the biology behind it,
0:54.4	how your brain processes text, the limitations of that.
0:57.4	And if you saw maybe a couple months ago
0:59.4	on the YouTube channel,
1:00.4	I did a series of videos that kind of tackled speed reading as a whole big
1:04.0	topic and we talked about the entire reading process kind of how your brain
1:08.3	processes a text your eyes move across the page and that series of videos specifically the third one
1:15.5	which talked about ways you can actually improve your reading speeds was my
1:19.2	first foray into actually emailing researchers to get help and to make sure I was reading their work correctly.
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