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Sunday, June 5, 2022

Can Bionic Reading make you a speed reader? Not so fast [The Conversation, June 2022]

Title:
Can Bionic Reading make you a speed reader? Not so fast
 
Author:
Lauren M Singer Trakhman, Assistant Clinical Professor of Human Development, University of Maryland
 
Published:
The Conversation, 3 June 2022
 
From the article:
What if something as simple as bolding parts of a word could make reading a breeze, improving your focus, speed and comprehension?  
 
That’s the claim made by the creators of Bionic Reading, an app that revises texts so that the most concise parts of the words are “highlighted.”