A chapter a day – Association of book reading with longevity

Overview of attention for article published in Social Science & Medicine, July 2016

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Reading (process)

Cited by user Wishwecanturnbacktime on 16 Feb 2017

Reading is a complex "cognitive process" of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning (reading comprehension).