Education, Skills and Learning

We do it all the time, but what's actually going on in our brains as we read?

A woman reads a book at her open air book store in Skopje April 24, 2014. Macedonians will cast their ballots on Sunday April 27 in the second round of the presidential vote, overshadowed by the general elections. Macedonian voters look likely to hand conservative Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski a third term in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday, opting for relative economic stability and shrugging off opposition claims of creeping authoritarianism.

Scientists can now analyze brain activity as we read entire books. Image: REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

Karen Nikos
Associate Director, News and Media Relations, University of California, Davis
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