Maryanne Wolf, neuroscientist: ‘Because of screens, we have learned another way of reading that short-circuits the brain’
The expert believes we are facing a paradigm shift similar to the move from an oral to a written culture in classical Greece: ‘Socrates said that reading would supplant memory. It is true that it displaces memory, but it does not entirely replace it’
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