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Easy E-Reading: The Ventral Route and the End of Experimental Text

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Wired's Jonah Lehrer recently spoke to neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, who explained that our brain uses two processes to interpret the written word: the "ventral route" for fast reads, and the "dorsal stream" for difficult verbiage. Cohort Tim Carmody then weighed in, wondering about Lehrer's analysis and why ventral-oriented e-readers won't be mediums for avant garde texts. What will the Marinettis and Mallarmés of the future use?

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