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Digital Reading Behavior & Habit Can Affect“Reading Brain”and Cognitive Model of Reading

Yuan Xilin   

  • Online:2016-04-15 Published:2016-04-25

Abstract:

Reading is an information processing and feedback activity about language and text. The reading brain refers to “the brain in the reading”. With the changes in reading behavior and habit during digital reading,the neural structure of the brain will be also adjusted and remodeled, generating new neural connections, forming
new neural circuits to fit the change of network digital reading behavior. And network retrieval, screen reading and fast browsing behavior in the process of digital reading may cause some changes in reading processing mode, such as fragmentation information processing and nonlinear collaborative thinking. And the great impacts on cognition, could be summarized in three main aspects: (1) increasing cognitive load; (2) reducing reader’s cognitive costs, and developing new reading model similar to the “memory outsourcing to internet” mode; (3)putting forward higher requirements for the reader’s meta-reading ability. Further, the “reading brain” is also changing, and role of reader is also changed from a knowledge cultivator to a hunter of information. So how to promote the reader’s meta-reading ability is a key concern in the research area of internet digital reading. It has profound impact on reading comprehension performance in network environment.

Key words: Digital reading, Reading brain, Reading behavior mode, Meta-reading, Cognitive model