Highlights.

1. Half listening: when you’re listening to some, but not all that being said for whatever reason.
2. Sound listening: when you are aware words are being said, but doesn’t properly take in the meaning.
3. Active listening: when you are fully focused in apprehendin...

Different areas of the brain are active when we read. We extract visual information that is correlated with sound to get meaning.

Reading does not just involve learning the letters. You have to understand and recognize the words, too. Skilled readers learn to recognize the...

When we hear a name, our belief patterns, assumptions, biases and prejudices provide us with cues that can affect our judgement, and may or may not be factually correct.

This even leads to gender bias, as female names tend to have softer, timid sounds, indicating smallness...