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The decline of book reading may have costly implications for cognition and social skills. Experts say the abandonment of book reading may have some unappealing consequences for cognition. “People are clearly reading fewer books now than they used to, and that has to have a cost because we know book reading is very good cognitive exercise,” says Ken Pugh, director of research at the Yale-affiliated Haskins Laboratories, which examines the importance of spoken and written language. Pugh says the process of reading a book involves “a highly variable set of skills that are deep and complex” and that activate all of the brain’s major domains. “Language, selective attention, sustained attention, cognition, and imagination — there’s no question reading is going to strengthen all those,” he says. In particular, reading novels and works of narrative non-fiction — basically, books that tell a story — train a reader’s imagination and aspects of cognition that other forms of reading mostly neglect...

  Surprised? Yes, your submission to doctoral studies is rewarded with a titanic-sized remuneration. In this article, you will find how you can get almost 90% of your expenses squared away while pursuing a PhD degree. Below are some of the blow-out brilliant funding opportunities that come with a PhD -  Internal Funding Admission to PhD programs guarantee financial support in the form of Fellowships, Teaching Assistantships (TA), and Research Assistantships (RA).  On top of that, this funding is valid for all the candidates, not just selected ones. These are some of the impressive benefits that the financial support entails: Annual Stipend Tuition Remission Health Insurance  Scholarship   You will be intrigued to know that Brown University even provides health and dental insurance subsidies to their PhD students.  Contacting Professors You can also connect with professors who are looking for students to contribute to their research ...