Tuesday, August 19, 2014

One study suggests that reading Kindle you learn less – ComputerHoy

A new study has shown that Kindle readers reminded readers much worse on paper the events in a histori a mystery. The report was presented at an Italian conference, and details how to 50 readers were given the same short story by Elizabeth George. Half read the 28 pages on eReader while others did on paper. They were then made tests related to the development of the story and the details of it.

Anne Mangen at the University of Stavanger in Norway led the study, and found that academics might find differences in the level of immersion that the device allows as well as emotional responses to the story. “Their predictions are based on A similar study was conducted with iPads.

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In this case, reading from eReader and book was like that between iPad and Book , but still remained differences. Readers Kindle rebuilt much worse story when they were asked, in one test, that recolocaran 14 events in the text in the correct order.

Researchers associate these results with the tactile feedback of a Kindle, it does not provide the same support for mental reconstruction of a history as a printed book. “When you read in paper you can feel with your fingers pages they are stacked in the pile on the left, and fall in right “.

Surprisingly, these results contradict those of experiment last year with Norwegian children, who were also divided into groups, paper physical and PDF on a computer screen. Surprisingly, the ones who read the digital version which showed a greater mastery of the text read.

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