preliminary
an action or event preceding or preparing for something fuller or more important
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- Aug 2020
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elemental.medium.com elemental.medium.com
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One of his studies, published in 2010, found students who listened to an audio version of a text performed worse on a comprehension quiz than students who had read the same text on paper.
fascinating
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Panero highlights a 2013 study that found reading passages of highbrow “literary” fiction — as opposed to non-fiction or popular fiction — led to improvements on tests that measured readers’ theory of mind.
Reminds me of the Mozart theory, where people who were exposed to some of Mozart's work before taking tests showed significant improvement.
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