A new study by researchers at the University of Tokyo explores whether reading manga on paper or on a tablet changes how the brain understands and remembers stories. Participants first read the opening half of a two-part manga story either on paper or on a tablet. Later, while inside an MRI scanner, they read the second half through LCD goggles and answered questions about the story. Brain scans taken during the reading and questioning showed differences in activity depending on which medium they had just read. People who first read the opening half of the stories on a tablet took longer to answer more demanding questions that required combining information from both halves than those who first read it on paper. This research could impact educational decisions or even hardware and software related to digital reading. 
  • erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    27 days ago

    idk if i had to read manga wearing goggles inside a mri machine it feels like thats not exactly what the experience of reading on a tablet is

    • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      26 days ago

      Participants first read the opening half of a two-part manga story either on paper or on a tablet. Later, while inside an MRI scanner, they read the second half through LCD goggles and answered questions about the story.

      Inside the MRI machine they used goggles for the second part, for the first part they used a tablet or printed books. You can’t move inside the MRI machine so they had to do this.