'Picturing' Words Makes Faster Readers

Originally published: Mar 25 2015 - 10:00am, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Contributor(Inside Science) - "Agua" is water, "pan" is bread, "cerveza" is beer. Exams are done and bags packed for spring break, but vacationing students (and snowbirds, too) are still likely to be reading new words as they travel to clear skies and sunny beaches. As a word is read, it grows increasingly familiar. Eventually, a part of the reader's brain turns the now-familiar string of letters and...