Improved reading
Primary school techniques for adults!?
Reading is an essential prerequisite for all forms of study. We know this, as adults, yet we continue to use the reading techniques that we learned in primary school. Reading is the least developed of all our basic skills. Adults are capable of far more advanced reading techniques. We can control our visual processes, we have a much larger vocabulary, our basic knowledge is greater and we can recognise words automatically.
Do your brain a favour and double your speed
The human brain can process about 800-1,000 words per minute. Using primary school techniques, however only an average of 200 words a minute are processed and the brain only functions at 25% of its capacity. As a result, our mind wanders and we don’t remember what we have read.
The faster you read, the more concentred you are:
Information is delivered to the brain faster and we stay focused on the task. Reading at a higher speed doesn’t impair the reader’s concentration in any way and it can actually improve it!
Target audience
Doctoral students and postdocs
Course content
- Analysis of existing reading skills, detection of
restricting habits - Exercises for reducing the three main reading faults,
partly supported by specially developed technical devices - Introduction and training of new reading techniques and
of a flexible reading strategy - Demonstration of the relationship between reading
technique and concentration/memory retention - Motivating reading tests, in which participants ascertain
their progress in objective figures and learn how to
implement their new techniques in their everyday work
Terms and Applications
- Date: 25/26 November, 2015
- Time: 9.00am-16.30pm
- Group size: maximal 14
- Workshop language: English
Venue:
Research Academy Leipzig
Burgstr. 21 SR 1.11
Leipzig
Link (Google maps)
Lecturer
Friedrich Hasse
Registration completed
Please fill out the registration form to enroll yourself to the course. You will receive an confirmation email.
Please contact sfb-trr-102-office(at)physik.uni-halle.de in case of questions.