CHAPTER FOUR
Professor Anne Mangen talks about how we read differently on screens. We were talking via Zoom:
Professor Mangen explains more about this:
Professor Mangen explains some of the implications:
Professor Raymond Marr explains the nature of reading as a form of attention. We were talking in Toronto, Canada:
Professor Marr explains what we do when we read complex fiction:
Professor Marr discusses this more:
CHAPTER FIVE
Professor Marcus Raichle talks about day-dreaming. I went to interview him at his office in St Louis, Missouri but due to an administrative error he was away and we had to do it on the phone:
Professor Marcus Raichle talks about how people used to think about the brain:
Professor Jonathan Smallwood discusses what we do when we are reading. We were in York in England when we had this conversation:
Professor Smallwood explains more:
Professor Nathan Spreng explains important aspects of creativity. We were in Montreal in Canada when we had this conversation:
Professor Spreng explains more:
Professor Spreng explains more about attention:
Professor Spreng explains how learning this led to personal changes for him:
Professor Reichle explains more about the need for mind-wandering:
Professor Spreng explains how digital interruption is regarding our thinking:
Professor Reichle offers the symphony orchestra as a metaphor for thinking: