Comments on: How the Brains of Bookworms Compare To Those of Bibliophobes http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: mady http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34961 mady Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:21:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34961 that is so cool. I love reading and math. I would die for an opportunity like the one your son had. that is so cool. I love reading and math. I would die for an opportunity like the one your son had.

]]> By: mady http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34960 mady Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:17:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34960 I love to read. In the seventh grade the teacher told me I didn't have to do book projects because I was reading better then the average 18 year old. Then I can hardly ever find anything in the adult section that Isn't to over the top for a 14 year old. I even got so tired of looking for a book that I started reading the dictionary. And today I've read the dictionary 7 times. And I'm only 14 I love to read. In the seventh grade the teacher told me I didn’t have to do book projects because I was reading better then the average 18 year old. Then I can hardly ever find anything in the adult section that Isn’t to over the top for a 14 year old. I even got so tired of looking for a book that I started reading the dictionary. And today I’ve read the dictionary 7 times. And I’m only 14

]]> By: Elizabeth Sullivan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34463 Elizabeth Sullivan Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:05:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34463 I AM that kid! :D I AM that kid! :D

]]> By: diana bittar http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34462 diana bittar Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:07:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34462 I was reading at three years old,and always had my head in a book .So much so my mother complained to our G.P.He nearly hit the roof.Woman whatever she reads she is learning some thing.Even now ,I read anything and everything.Even instruction books.? When old enough to join the local Library,the librarian had to help me choose books from the adult library when I had gone through everything in the Junior library. I just loved to read .Maybe it was an escape from a not so happy childhood,who knows.Just bought a kindle so I can keep reading without the bulk of books especially when travelling. I was reading at three years old,and always had my head in a book .So much so my mother complained to our G.P.He nearly hit the roof.Woman whatever she reads she is learning some thing.Even now ,I read anything and everything.Even instruction books.?
When old enough to join the local Library,the librarian had to help me choose books from the adult library when I had gone through everything in the Junior library.
I just loved to read .Maybe it was an escape from a not so happy childhood,who knows.Just bought a kindle so I can keep reading without the bulk of books especially when travelling.

]]> By: esse http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34461 esse Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:06:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34461 practice is the mother of skills. practice is the mother of skills.

]]> By: Jerri Rudloff http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34460 Jerri Rudloff Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:17:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34460 My father worked for a heavy construction company during the depression and World War II. We moved every few months with minimum possessions. My older brother and I had no exposure to books in our constantly changing homes. In kindergarten and first grade [1940/1941] I lagged behind my classmates to my mother's despair as my brother had already skipped the second grade. We moved [again] and at a different school something "clicked" and the teacher recommended I skip second grade also, but Mother said no. She saw my brother's difficulty with classmates one to two years older than he. By the third grade Mother had to argue with the librarian to let me check out ten books. The librarian insisted that I couldn't read them all in the allotted time. She was wrong. Was it a change of school that helped me make sense of all those letters on a page? Did the wiring in my brain change because I read, or did I read because the wiring changed? My father worked for a heavy construction company during the depression and World War II. We moved every few months with minimum possessions. My older brother and I had no exposure to books in our constantly changing homes. In kindergarten and first grade [1940/1941] I lagged behind my classmates to my mother’s despair as my brother had already skipped the second grade. We moved [again] and at a different school something “clicked” and the teacher recommended I skip second grade also, but Mother said no. She saw my brother’s difficulty with classmates one to two years older than he. By the third grade Mother had to argue with the librarian to let me check out ten books. The librarian insisted that I couldn’t read them all in the allotted time. She was wrong. Was it a change of school that helped me make sense of all those letters on a page? Did the wiring in my brain change because I read, or did I read because the wiring changed?

]]> By: Bram Floria http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34459 Bram Floria Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:44:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34459 is this not so comPLETELY a 'use it or lose it' argument?? is this not so comPLETELY a ‘use it or lose it’ argument??

]]> By: TheCritic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34458 TheCritic Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:27:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34458 Brain development has slowed to a crawl by 7-12 years of age? In boys? Well, this is news science should know about. Currently, they don't think it stops until past adolescence. Someone should tell science. There's also much to be said about the other things you learn in school about life and the way people are that makes skipping grades kind of a hesitant idea, as I've never seen anyone do it well and get all the social skills they could have acquired had they had more time. Brain development has slowed to a crawl by 7-12 years of age? In boys? Well, this is news science should know about. Currently, they don’t think it stops until past adolescence. Someone should tell science.

There’s also much to be said about the other things you learn in school about life and the way people are that makes skipping grades kind of a hesitant idea, as I’ve never seen anyone do it well and get all the social skills they could have acquired had they had more time.

]]> By: Tim http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34457 Tim Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:05:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34457 I was significantly behind my peers in reading at age 7 and significantly ahead of them at age 10. I had a hard time learning to read but kept at it because I loved stories and eventually became the best in class. I wonder what the scans of a brain of a child like me would show? I was significantly behind my peers in reading at age 7 and significantly ahead of them at age 10. I had a hard time learning to read but kept at it because I loved stories and eventually became the best in class. I wonder what the scans of a brain of a child like me would show?

]]> By: Josh http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/10/how-the-brains-of-bookworms-compare-to-those-of-bibliophobes/#comment-34456 Josh Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:19:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=40574#comment-34456 It should also be noted onto what are the prevailing circumstances, and environment onto how the bibliophobes are nurtured. The brain works physically with the individual persons as well as with the world around it. To act like you're going to get it all down to just this one part is pretty naive to say the least of things. Hope all the professionals in this field are not so blind sided as the article wants to suggest to say, "Yeah, we got it all down to just these so called certain parts." The philosophy of science has always left open doors for a certain amount of unknowns that can't always just be known for anything. You only can give out the best speculations you can, with the best reservations you can, and then to rightly accommodate to, and for. It should also be noted onto what are the prevailing circumstances, and environment onto how the bibliophobes are nurtured. The brain works physically with the individual persons as well as with the world around it. To act like you’re going to get it all down to just this one part is pretty naive to say the least of things. Hope all the professionals in this field are not so blind sided as the article wants to suggest to say, “Yeah, we got it all down to just these so called certain parts.” The philosophy of science has always left open doors for a certain amount of unknowns that can’t always just be known for anything. You only can give out the best speculations you can, with the best reservations you can, and then to rightly accommodate to, and for.

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