This short test presents five progressively faster levels of text and asks one simple question: at what point does your brain ...

Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

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In the movie "Lucy," Scarlett Johansson plays a woman who ingests a drug that gives her super-intelligence, allowing her to read huge volumes of material in just minutes. In real life, the Boston tech ...

Speed reading is a skill that almost seems like a superpower. The ability to quickly read and comprehend books, articles and other written materials would be life-changing for a lot of us. But is ...

Think browsing the Internet all day has given you a leg up on speed reading? A new test from Staples’ Ereader Research Center will tell you exactly how many words you read a minute, and tell you how ...