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The Reading Brain in a Digital World — This Is Your Brain

The Reading Brain in a Digital World — This Is Your Brain

The Reading Brain in a Digital World — This Is Your Brain

Neurosurgeon Dr. Phil Stieg interviews Wolf on how the brain builds a reading circuit — and what screens change.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Phil Stieg interviews Wolf on how the brain builds a reading circuit — and what screens change.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Phil Stieg interviews Wolf on how the brain builds a reading circuit — and what screens change.

This Is Your Brain × Maryanne Wolf

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Neurosurgeon Dr. Phil Stieg interviews Wolf on how a brain with no reading hardware builds a circuit — and what digital media does to it.

The human brain did not evolve to read — but reading makes us more fully human as it opens up new worlds of understanding and empathy.

— This Is Your Brain, episode notes

Listen at thisisyourbrain.com (27 min).

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

© 2026 Nido Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

© 2026 Nido Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.