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Resources to supplement
The Foundations and Processes of Clear Communication
1st ed. Vancouver 2023
By Cheryl Stephens
SFU Publishing
Annals of Technology
A List of Reasons Why Our Brains Love Lists
Maria Konnikova
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December 2, 2013 The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-list-of-reasons-why-our-brains-love-lists
Simplifying Cognitive Load
https://achemicalorthodoxy.co.uk/2018/10/25/simplifying-cognitive-load-theory/
Empirical Editors: Fluency
https://blog.editors.ca/?p=6662
Includes Empirical Research list
Brain Circuit That Encodes Timing of Events Identified
https://neurosciencenews.com/pyramidal-cells-timing-17565/
“Reality” is constructed by your brain. Here’s what that means, and why it matters:
What the science of visual illusions can teach us about our polarized world.
Brian Resnick
, June 2020
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/20978285/optical-illusion-science-humility-reality-polarization
READER, COME HOME: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Maryanne Wolf, Watch her full talk here:
https://youtu.be/XmiFDLUQV8U
How your brain predictions interfere with what you see
Georg Keller | TEDxBasel 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgWgfdLZciM
The interaction between language and working memory
:
a systematic review of fMRI studies in the past two decades
Zoha Deldar, Carlos Gevers-Montoro, Ali Khatibi, and Ladan Ghazi-Saidi
http://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/Neuroscience.2021001
What happens in our brains when we make educated guesses
https://neurosciencenews.com/educated-guesses-17046/
“Neuronal Computation Underlying Inferential Reasoning in Humans and Mice” by Helen Barron et al. Cell.
Where Does Working Memory Resid
e
https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-map-working-memory-17102/
A brief comparison chart of guidelines
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/49em4dy5jr5qrplajqwbz/BriefComparisonGuidelines-based-in-reader-brain.docx?rlkey=r5cdll1ri70mjt4tn44lta202&dl=0
Writing for the reader brain
http://
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We don't use readability formulas...
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